China has launched the Tianhe-3 supercomputer, believed to be the most powerful machine currently in existence.

China has launched the Tianhe-3 supercomputer, believed to be the most powerful machine currently in existence. Built for the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, the Tianhe-3, also known as “Xingyi,” is thought to surpass the capabilities of the upcoming “El Capitan” supercomputer. The Tianhe-3 could have a peak performance of 2.05 exaflops and a sustained performance of 1.57 exaflops on High Performance LINPACK. The processor of the Tianhe-3 is a hybrid device with CPU and accelerator compute as well as three different kinds of memory, two of which are located in the compute complex.

Read more at: https://www.techradar.com