China’s exascale supercomputer ‘Tianhe-3’ to be operational by 2020

Tianhe-3, China’s new supercomputer, will be in operation by 2020. (Representational photo; Express)
China is developing a supercomputer capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second that will be operationalised by 2020, a top official has said.
According to the national plan for the next generation of high performance computers, China will develop an ‘exascale computer’ during the 13th Five-Year-Plan period (2016-2020).“The government