China's Sunway TaihuLight declared world's fastest supercomputer

                On 20 June 2016, Chinese supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight with 93 petaflop/second speed was declares as the world’s fastest supercomputer. It was revealed in the TOP500 list of supercomputers released at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, Germany. The list further revealed that the USA is not home to the largest number of systems. With a surge in industrial and research installations registered over the last few years, China leads with 167 systems and the USA is second with 165. Asian share of 218 systems, up from 173 in November 2015, includes 8 supercomputers owned by Indian –based organizations. This super computer can perform 93 petaflop operations per second. It was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology and installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi. It displaced the Tianhe-2, an Intel-based Chinese supercomputer that has claimed the top spot om the previous six TOP500 lists.