Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency.
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The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance.
The U.S. Department of Energy and IBM this week announced Summit, their latest and greatest supercomputer. Its purported 200 quadrillion calculations per second would make it the fastest in the world.
China has announced that its first exascale supercomputer, which will be eight times faster than the Sunway TaihuLight, will be ready by June 2018. China came first place in the 2017 TOP500 list.
China's TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 supercomputers have maintained their number one and two spots on the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. The US has been pushed out of the top three after two decades.
China wants to start working on an exascale prototype supercomputer this year. Being at least ten times more powerful than today's top performer, the exascale device won't be operational until 2020.
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