China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 Petaflops per second. The machine is 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world’s-fastest-supercomputer title. The powerful system was assembled by Chinese company Inspur using tens of thousands of the latest multicore chips produced by Intel, with an addition of some home-made technology. The supercomputer is expected to start working on airplane test simulations and government security operations.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/06/fastest-supercomputer-Tianhe-china.html