China Has more Supercomputers than US



China leads in number of Super Computers as well as the fastest supercomputer.

China's Sunway TaihuLight with 93 Pflops/sec (1Pfloap=one million billion floating-point operations per second.) tops the list. It has overtaken another Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2 with 33.9 Pflops.

Now China has 167 Supercomputer systems ahead of the U.S. with 165 ,Japan 29,Gemany 26 and India 9

Supercomputers are extensively used in  weather forecasting, mapping DNA and simulating nuclear explosions.
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