China leads rest of the world in superfast computers

Chinese manufacturers continue to dominate the list of makers of the world's fastest supercomputers in terms of the number of systems, according to Top500, an authoritative ranking on supercomputers globally.

Supercomputers installed by three Chinese vendors, Lenovo, Sugon and Inspur, account for 312 of the top 500 systems on the 55th edition of the Top500 supercomputer list.

Lenovo provided 180 of the systems, Sugon 68 and Inspur 64. The new fastest supercomputer is the Japanese system "Fugaku", followed by the second-placed "Summit" system of the United States. At number three is "Sierra," a system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US state of California.