USA Takes Supercomputing Crown from China
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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/18/us-takes-back-supercomputing-crown-with-world-fastest-computer/
"The Top500 industry list gave its No. 1 ranking to the Sequoia supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California a spot earned by Sequoia's ability to crunch 16.32 quadrillion calculations per second (16.32 petaflops/s). Sequoia's climb to the top gives the U.S. its first No 1. supercomputer since November 2009. The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer had seized the supercomputing crown in November 2010, but ranks No. 5 on this year's list a sign of how quickly the world's supercomputing power has grown."
"The Top500 industry list gave its No. 1 ranking to the Sequoia supercomputer housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California a spot earned by Sequoia's ability to crunch 16.32 quadrillion calculations per second (16.32 petaflops/s). Sequoia's climb to the top gives the U.S. its first No 1. supercomputer since November 2009. The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer had seized the supercomputing crown in November 2010, but ranks No. 5 on this year's list a sign of how quickly the world's supercomputing power has grown."
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I wonder if running Chinese in Unicode handicaps the Chinese. 7000 characters are a lot more to sort and search than a 26 letter alphabet.