China now has way more of the world’s most powerful computers than the US
Sixteen years ago, China didn’t have a single computer listed (pdf, p.12) among the world’s top 500 supercomputers, machines whose enormous processing power is required for the complex modeling that can lead to new scientific and medical discoveries. Now, it has surpassed the US by a record margin—nearly 60—to become the nation with the most supercomputers, according to the latest Top 500 survey, one of the most comprehensive reports tracking high-performance computing.
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