China is building a supercomputer with a performance of 100 petaflops

So far, the US has launched the most powerful supercomputer at the moment, Sequoia, with a performance of 20
petaflops, construction of the machine started in China 5 times faster in terms of productivity (100 petaflops). The launch is scheduled for 2015 and it will be called Tianhe-2.
Tianhe-2 will help China in the power race and will allow competing with future supercomputers.
Industry experts assess the situation and predict that by 2018, devices with a capacity of 1,000 petaflops (1 exaflops) will appear, but Tianhe-2 will remain on the leaderboard. In addition, China itself plans to launch an exaflop computer by this date.
Now another Chinese development is in the lead. This is Tianhe-1A , which has a performance of 4.7 petaflops.
Like the Tianhe-1A, the Tianhe-2 will also be developed by the National University of Military Technology.
Leadership in the world of supercomputers pushes China to serious developments in the world of high technologies. Currently, the development is carried out using foreign (American) components and software. All developments are carried out within the framework of the program 863 , which is designed to help accelerate the development of the country in the field of advanced technologies. The main objective of the program 863 is the independence of the state from the import of foreign technologies.
Taken from the IT world .