China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower

China Could Supplant U.S. as the Supercomputing Superpower | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "It’s called Tianhe-2, and with more than 3 million processor cores, it’s the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It can perform more than 30 quadrillion calculations per second, easily dwarfing the runner-up, an Oak Ridge National Laboratories machine known as Titan. The Oak Ridge system can do 17.59 quadrillion calculations per second, according to its most recent published benchmarks."