At the time of writing, the fastest supercomputer in the world is the Chinese Sunway TaihuLight.
It was designed by the National Research Center Of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC). It boasts of storage of 20PB (petabyte) and with speed of 1.45 GHz (3.06 TFlops single CPU, 105 PFLOPS Linpack, 125
PFLOPS peak) and is widely used for Oil prospecting, life sciences, weather forecast, industrial design, pharmaceutical research, culture.
It cost $273m.
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