China’s Sunway-TaihuLight named world’s fastest supercomputer

China’s new supercomputing system Sunway-TaihuLight was on Monday named the world’s fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.
The National Supercomputing Centre was also unveiled simultaneously in China’s Jiangsu province, where the new-generation supercomputer is installed, Xinhua news agency reported.
With processing capacity of 125.436 petaflops (PFlops) per second, which means it can perform quadrillions of calculations per second at peak p