National Supercomputing Centre and Sunway TaihuLight

Wuxi is home to China s National Supercomputing Centre and the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer. This system came to global attention in June 2016, when it topped the global Top500 list of the world s most powerful supercomputers, far surpassing the second system (also Chinese, the Tianhe-2A) let alone the third (Titan, from the United States). Not only that, Sunway TaihuLight held the top position…