Sino-European supercomputer coop launched

Tianjin (CNS) -- A joint supercomputer program based on China's "Tianhe-1" was launched by Chinese and European institutes in the State Supercomputing Center in Tianjin on Monday.

Tianhe-1, or Milky Way Number One, is a supercomputer with an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.566 petaFLOPS developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology. Scientists from China, the U.K., Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland will contribute to its further development.

In November 2010, the system was ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer, crowning the TOP-500 list, with a peak computing speed of 4.7 petaFLOPS.

It has already improved computing services for more than 300 international clients in the seismic prospecting, anime color processing, biomedical and hi-end engineering industries.