New Chinese system ‘Sunway-TaihuLight’ named world’s fastest supercomputer

The Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer has topped a global list of the fastest systems for a seventh straight year, and for the first time the winner, Sunway TaihuLight, uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. (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