It has been nine years since a Chinese HPC supercomputer was at the top of the High Performance Linpack performance rankings, but as we all know, China did break through the exascale flops barrier at 64-bit precision before the United States did – and on two different systems. China didn’t brag about it, but let enough information leak out to US experts so the word would get out.To be specific, the Sunway OceanLight machine installed at NSC Qingdao came first, which we initially talked about in ...