In June China extended its lead in supercomputing speed when the Tianhe-2 became the world's fastest supercomputer.
If we were to put these GPUs into servers, such as Japan's supercomputing center did with Tsubame, you end up with the 29th fastest supercomputer in the world, literally with GPUs that we installed a weekend before.
The world's fastest supercomputer is Chinese.
In November, China's Tianhe-1 became the world's fastest supercomputer.
"I'm going to make the fastest supercomputer there is.
Newspapers cheered when Riken and Fujitsu unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer in June.
He noted at another point that the world's biggest private solar research facility and fastest supercomputer were now in China.
They include the fastest supercomputer (IBM Blue Gene), the "most intriguing data center (Google's "ultramysterious" facility in The Dalles, Ore).
Such computing power matches the performance speed of the world's fastest supercomputer of just a decade ago.
The project is an effort to match the processing power of what was in 1996 the world's fastest supercomputer.
With the aid of the Chinese military, Intel has won itself big bragging rights: the world's fastest supercomputer runs entirely on Intel semiconductors.
