Beijing: China is all set to deliver an exascale system ‘Tianhe-3’ by 2020, a supercomputer which is capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, a top official told media.
This is the next major milestone in supercomputing performance and is three years ahead of the U.S. roadmap.
According to the national plan for the next generation of high performance computers, China will develop an 'exascale computer' during the 13th Five-Year-Plan period (2016-2020).
"The government of Tianjin Binhai New Area, NUDT and the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin are working on the project, and we plan to name it Tianhe-3," said Liao Xiangke, head of National University of Defence Technology (NUDT).
In 2010, China's first petaflop supercomputer Tianhe-1 capable of at least a million billion calculations per second came into service in the supercomputing centre.
At present, Tianhe-1 performs various tasks including oil exploration, high-end equipment manufacturing, biological medicine and animation design, and serves nearly 1,000 customers, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
(With Agency inputs)
