Monday, November 15, 2010

DTN News: China Unseats U.S. In Supercomputer Ranking....NSI News Source Info # 1195

DTN News: China Unseats U.S. In Supercomputer Ranking....NSI News Source Info # 1195
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - November 15, 2010: The Jaguar has fallen from the top of the food chain.
When the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers is released today, the Cray XT5 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and run by the University of Tennessee, called "Jaguar," will drop to No. 2 after a year of eating the lunch of every other supercomputer in the world. In its place will stand Tianhe-1A, a system built by China's National University of Defense Technology, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.

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