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Chinese supercomputer is world's second-fastest

For the first time, a Chinese supercomputer has made the list of the world’s top ten fastest calculating machines, the BBC reported. The Nebulae, designed by the National Super Computer Center in Shenzhen, was ranked second in the world on the biannual top 500 supercomputer list. The rest of the list was dominated by the US, which made more than half of the world’s fastest computers, including the fastest, called Jaguar. The Jaguar, made by Cray Labs and owned by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has a top speed of 1.75 pentaflops, equal to 1,750 trillion calculations per second. China has 24 machines on the list; the Nebulae has a top speed of 1.20 pentaflops. Dawning, the company that built the Nebulae, is reportedly building an even faster machine in Tianjin, and developing its own silicon chips to power it. Commercial supercomputers are used primarily for industrial research such as aircraft design and oil exploration.

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