China to Get New Supercomputer in 2020

                China is developing a supercomputer capable of at least a billion calculations per second that will be operationlised by 2020. According to the national plan for the next generation of high performance computers, China will develop and “exascale computer” during the 13^th five-year-plan period (2016-2020). The government of Tianjin Binhai New Area, NUDT and the National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin are working on the project, and they plan to name it Tianhe-3.

                In 2010, China’s first petaflop supercomputer Tianhe-1, capable of at least a million calculations per second came into service in the supercomputing centre. At present, Tianhe-1 performs various tasks, including iol exploration, high-end equipment manufacturing, biological medicine and animation design, and serves nearly 1,000 customers on their problems every day.