China now holds 45% of the world's top 500 supercomputers, as well as occupying 2 places in top 10, according to the 52nd edition of the supercomputer TOP500 list released in Dallas, Texas, November 12, 2018.

The TOP500 list of supercomputers released by the TOP500 organization, November 12, 2018. [Photo: top500.org]

In the top 10, 5 of the super computers are from US Department of Energy (DOE), with the first two Summit at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Sierra at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Oak Ridge computer is the perennial champion.

China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer ranks 3rd on the list. TaihuLight was developed by China's National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) and installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Tianhe-2A (Milky Way-2A), deployed at the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is the number four on the TOP500 list.

Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, deployed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, May 23, 2018. [Photo: VCG]

On the whole, China's share of the TOP500 supercomputers continues to rise. There are now 227 Chinese supercomputers on the TOP500 list, up from 206 on the list six months ago.

Complied by the international organization "TOP 500", the list of the world's top supercomputers has been put out since 1993 and is released every six months.