China wants to join what HPCwire calls "the petaflop fraternity," breaking free of dependence on the United States in developing the next generation of supercomputers.
InfoWorld reports it is boosting investment in its own Godson microprocessor in a bid to create machines capable of working out 1,000 trillion mathematical operations per second.
Japan and Korea also are working to build petaflop-level machines in the next few years, but China has set the ambitious goal of completing one by 2010, notes The Register. That story says China actually plans three: in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, in the Guangdong province, no doubt setting off an arms race of sorts among competing nations for the title of the fastest.
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