National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou | |
Type: | Multiprogram |
Budget: | $400 million |
Director: | Lu Yutong (卢宇彤) |
Address: | Sun Yat-sen University East Campus, 132 East Outer Ring Rd., Higher Education Mega Centre. |
City: | Guangzhou |
Province: | Guangdong |
Country: | China |
Coor: | 23.0731°N 113.3886°W |
Campus: | 42332m2 |
Operating Agency: | The government of Guangdong province and Guangzhou city, Sun Yat-sen University and National University of Defense Technology |
The National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou houses Tianhe-2,[1] which is currently the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world, with a measured 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second).[2] Tianhe-2 is operated by the National University of Defence Technology, and owned by the Chinese government.