{"id":33699,"date":"2017-01-21T20:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/china-says-its-world-first-exascale-supercomputer-is-almost-complete"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:30","slug":"china-says-its-world-first-exascale-supercomputer-is-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/china-says-its-world-first-exascale-supercomputer-is-almost-complete","title":{"rendered":"China Says Its World-First \u2018Exascale\u2019 Supercomputer Is Almost Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-says-its-world-first-exascale-supercomputer-is-almost-complete.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never heard of an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exascale_computing\">exascale computer<\/a> before \u2014 known unofficially as a super-supercomputer \u2014 don\u2019t worry, it doesn\u2019t even exist yet.<\/p>\n<p>But 2017 could be the year that all changes, because China just announced that its world-first exascale supercomputer prototype is due for completion in the coming months. If this thing works as it should, it will be the fastest computer in the world, capable of performing 1 quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s National Supercomputer Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-01\/17\/c_135990226.htm\">announced this week<\/a> that completion of their prototype is way ahead of schedule, and is expected to be completed in 2017, rather than 2018, as originally predicted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/china-says-its-world-first-exascale-supercomputer-is-almost-complete\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/china-says-its-world-first-exasc...t-complete<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never heard of an exascale computer before \u2014 known unofficially as a super-supercomputer \u2014 don\u2019t worry, it doesn\u2019t even exist yet. But 2017 could be the year that all changes, because China just announced that its world-first exascale supercomputer prototype is due for completion in the coming months. If this thing works as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65300,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions\/65300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}