- Summit achieved a performance of 122.3 Peta‐ FLOPS on the Linpack benchmark in June 2018, making it the fastest at that time. - Sunway Taihu‐ Light (China), which had been the fastest previously, was ranked third in June 2018 with 93.01 PetaFLOPS. Tianhe-2A was ranked fourth. - Titan (USA) was an earlier supercomputer at ORNL and was ranked 9th in June 2018.
Which is the world's fastest super computer? (Up to end of June 2018)
Asked in MPSC CS Prelims 2019 · Topic: Future Trends in Information and Communication Technology (Big Data Analytics and Data Science Innovations)
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Answer: C. Summit (USA)
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