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The
supercomputing system called "Tianhe Xingyi", was unveiled by
the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, at an industry
event in the capital of southern China's Guangdong Province,
Xinhua said.
Xinhua did not give more details on the new system's computing
power.
But the report cited Lu Yutong, director of the center, as
saying that the new computer used domestically designed
architecture and has outperformed Tianhe-2, one of China's
fastest supercomputers, in capacities such as CPU computing
power, networking, storage, and applications.
Tianhe-2 is being developed by the National University of
Defense Technology (NUDT) and is hosted at the National
Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou.
Tianhe-2 topped a list of the world's 500 fastest systems for
three consecutive years from 2013 but dropped out of the top
position in 2016, the year after the U.S. government placed the
NUDT on a blacklist that eliminated the university's access to
the Intel processors it uses in its supercomputers.
Other prominent Chinese supercomputing systems include Sunway
TaihuLight, developed by the National Supercomputing Center in
Wuxi, which ranked seventh on the June 2023 list while Tianhe-2
placed tenth.
(Reporting by Yelin Mo in Beijing and Brenda Goh in Shanghai;
Editing by Kim Coghill)
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