China Supercomputing Resources

China Is Starting to Spank the U.S. With Supercomputing Resources

Jamie Condliffe When it comes to supercomputers, the U.S. used to rule the roost. But these days its status is slipping—while China is surging ahead. How bad is the problem? This bad, according to the new Top500 list, which rounds up supercomputer performance around the world every six months: China nearly tripled the number of systems on the latest list, …