Simplified, 超级计算机
超 (super) 級 (grade) 計 (compute) 算 (count) 機 (machine)
The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achieved a sustained computing speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one thousand trillion mathematical operations per second — in the twice annual ranking of the world’s fastest 500 hundred computers.
The newest Top 500 ranking was made public on Monday at the International Supercomputer Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
The Chinese machine is actually now ranked as the world’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance, but that is considered a less significant measure than the actual computing speed achieved on a standardized computing test.
The world’s fastest computer remains the Cray Jaguar supercomputer, based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Last November it was measured at 1.75 petaflops.
- Chinese Edge Toward Supercomputing Record, by John Markoff, The New York Times
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