BEIJING, June 17 (UPI) -- A Chinese supercomputer performing more than 33 quadrillion calculations per second has taken the computing crown on a list of the world's fastest computers.
The Top500 list, updated twice a year at the International Supercomputing Conference, put the Tianhe-2 computer at the top of its list that measures performance for huge systems normally built for tasks like modeling nuclear weapons explosions and forecasting global climate changes, CNET reported Monday.