China’s ‘Sunway-TaihuLight’ is world’s fastest supercomputer 7th year in a row

The Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer has topped a global list of the fastest systems for a seventh straight year. Li Xiang/Xinhua via AP
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second was on Monday named the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer called Sunway-TaihuLight developed by the National Research Centre of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC) is built entirely using process