This is the first time that China has surpassed the US in the rankings.
Only a few months ago, the US had 169 systems in the Top500 compared to Chinas 159.
These were followed by France and UK with 18 and 15 supercomputers respectively in the TOP500 list 2017.
A petaflop is a thousand trillion floating point operations per second.
Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, another Chinese computer once again maintained the number two position with 33.86 petaflops.
China still lags far behind when compared with the US and Europe and requires continuous efforts for further development.
For more information on the complete TOP500 supercomputers list for November 2017, clickhere.
Source:IBTimes
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