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China: the Growing Computing Power
Saturday, 6 Nov, 2010 – 11:40 | No Comment
China: the Growing Computing Power

A few weeks ago, China announced that their supercomputer Tianhe-1A broke the 2 Petaflop barrier. To put that statement into perspective, let’s look at the state of computing right now. A FLOP stands for Floating …