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supercomputing crown from US  Summary: A Chinese supercomputer
Milky Way-2 has toppled the US Titan system from the number one
spot in the latest TOP500 list of the most powerful computers in
the world.  A Chinese supercomputer has taken the top spot in a
list of the fastest machines on the planet – demonstrating
almost twice the performance of the US computer that previously
held the title.  The Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, a supercomputer
developed by China's National University of Defense Technology,
is the most powerful computer in the world according to
the TOP500 list  It takes the top spot from Titan, a Cray XK7
system installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, which drops to number two in the
latest list.  The Milky Way 2 recorded 33.86 petaflops on the
Linpack benchmark, compared to the Titan's score of 17.59
petaflops.  The two top machines rely on very different
architectures. Milky Way 2 has 16,000