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Chinese supercomputer ranks first in Asia

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-11-19 15:36

A Chinese supercomputer, the "Tianhe-1," was ranked first in Asia and fifth in the world among the world's top 500 supercomputers by the Supercomputer Conference in Portland, Oregon, xinhuanet.com reported Wednesday.

"Tianhe-1", developed by Chinese National University of Defense Technology, was the only non-American supercomputer among the top ten. It is able to do more than one quadrillion calculations per second theoretically at its peak speed.