China Passes U.S. in Supercomputers

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Rick Merritt, EETimes, Nov. 13, 2017 – SAN JOSE, Calif. - China has passed the U.S. for the first time to lead the world in the number and total performance of supercomputers, according to the latest Top 500 list. Two China server makers - Inspur and Sugon - were the only systems vendors to show significant gains in the latest rankings.

China now has 201 supercomputers on the Top 500, its largest showing to date, compared to 145 for the U.S., it's all time low. China also leads with 35.3 percent of the total performance of systems on the Top 500 compared to 29.8 percent for the U.S. in second place.

The U.S. maintained its traditional lead in the rankings published six months ago with 169 systems compared to 160 for China. The two countries are far ahead of the pack with third ranked Japan at 35 systems followed by Germany with 20.

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