China has set 2020 as the date for delivering an exascale system, the next major milestone in supercomputing performance. This is three years ahead of the U.S. roadmap.
This claim is from China’s National University of Defense Technology, as reported Thursday by China’s official news agency, Xinhua.
This system will be called Tianhe-3, following a naming convention that began in 2010 when China announced its first petaflop-scale system, Tianhe-1. The first petascale system was developed in the U.S. in 2008.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD