The Tianhe-1A, which is at the National University of Defence Technology in Tianjin, is the fastest computer in the world:
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According to Nvidia, a technology company that supplied parts for the Chinese computer, the Tianhe-1A was clocked at 2.507 petaflops, or more than two quadrillion calculations per second. It has the power of 175,000 high-end laptops.[...]
Until now, the fastest supercomputer was the Jaguar, built by Cray, and installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Jaguar has clocked 1.75 petaflops in testing.
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@Joubran - you forget an important law of economics, when A owes B a little money its A's problem, but when A owes B a LOT of money its B's problem, all you own is a lot of debt that will never be repaid LOL
China forgets that her current prosperity was built by Western investment and would do well to remember that - the modern world is a different one with all nations depending on each other 20th Century thinking won't work in the 21st Century for very long. Get over it so we can all hold hands and sing 'kumubaya' ;-)