China's progress in supercomputing

Editor's note: The article is a commentary of Xinhua News Agency on China's supercomputer development.

China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, has taken top spot among the world's top 500 supercomputers. This is an important marker for the rapid growth of China's science and technology.

The Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin can perform a mind-numbing 2.57 quadrillion calculations per second.