Today the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China announced that their new Tianhe-1A supercomputer has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system in the world today. While these results have been submitted to TOP500.org, their semi-annual list of the world’s fastest systems will not be released until SC10 somewhere around November 15, 2010.
