A new phase of the global top 500 supercomputer list announced Wednesday, the use of proprietary Chinese chip manufacturing "compared to the light of the taihu lake" instead of "tianhe ii" topped the list of Chinese super calculate on the total quantity also ranked first for the first time ever more than the United States.

According to the international organization for the TOP500 list released that day, "compared to the light of the taihu lake" of floating point arithmetic speed is 930 million times per second, not only faster than the second "tianhe ii nearly twice, its efficiency is also 3 times. More important, and "tianhe ii using Intel chips, used" light "compared to taihu lake is China's independent intellectual property rights of the chip.

The group wrote in a statement: "China in the international organization for the TOP500 47 period to maintain the first position on the list, with an entirely based on the design, manufacture and create new processor system."

"Compared to the light of the taihu lake" by the state parallel computer engineering technology research center, installed in the national supercomputing center of wuxi. Previously, developed by China national university of defense technology "tianhe ii supercomputers have been in the TOP500 list for six degree of soil.

Top 10 in addition to the sunway taihu lake light "and" tianhe II, other are respectively "Titan" and "they" in the United States, Japan's "jing", "her" and "trinity" in the United States, Switzerland "generation ents peak", Germany "beautiful tail hazel hen" and "shaheen II", Saudi Arabia.

The TOP500 list is for the global installed the authority of the super computer "rankings" list. Since 1993, by the TOP500 international organization based on the measured computing speed published once every six months.

The list there is a significant change is that the United States for the total number of super computer for the first time the first place. The statement said, because in the past few years China's industrial and research departments submit registration system to flourish, China now into the list of super computer quantity of 167 units, more than 165 units in the United States. In addition, because China occupy the TOP two list, China also occupies the leading position in terms of computing performance category.

List major compilation, professor of computer science at the university of Tennessee, jack tang gallas said, China's supercomputer growing has become a "trend".

"2001 China the number is zero, but China has overtaken the United States today," tang gallas told xinhua reporters that "no other country has such a fast pace."

Tang gallas believes that the super computer "is more important than ever before," for energy, medicine, aircraft manufacturing, automobile and widely in the field of industry to provide high-performance computing services such as entertainment. "More powerful computing capacity will make that different industries to produce outstanding new products faster, so as to improve the competitiveness of a country".