http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9ac6612-e29f-11df-9ea3-00144feabdc0.html


"China has ousted the US as the maker of the world’s fastest supercomputer, signalling the country’s increasingly vigorous push to develop advanced technology.

The new system, known as Tianhe-1A, was developed by the National University of Defense Technology and unveiled at a supercomputing conference in Beijing on Thursday.

With a speed of 2.5 petaflops – meaning the system can make 1,000 trillion calculations per second – the Tianhe-1A is faster than the Jaguar, a system at a national laboratory at the University of Tennessee which topped the last global ranking published in June."