The world’s next fastest supercomputer will help boost China’s growing sea power

               

Ambitious plan for device capable of a billion billion calculations per second will be built as part of project to expand country’s influence across the seas
China is planning to boost its computing power tenfold within a couple of years by building a new generation supercomputer.

The machine will be based on the coast of Shandong province to process the data collected from the world’s oceans, according to scientists briefed on the project.

        

An Hong, professor of computer science with the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and a member of a committee advising the central government on high performance computer development, said the world’s first exascale computer would have a dedicated mission of helping China’s maritime expansion.

                                  

An exascale computer is defined as one that can carry out one billion billion calculations per second. It is not only 10 times faster than Sunway Taihulight – at present the world’s fastest computer which operates from Wuxi, Jiangsu – but equal to the calculation power of all the world’s top 500 super computers combined