Tianhe-3 - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   China is building a supercomputer of a billion billion calculations per second. What is it called?

a. Tainhe-2
b. Tianhe-2
c. Tainhe-3
d. Tianhe-3
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Tianhe-3

Explanation:
China is developing a supercomputer capable of billion billion calculations per second operationalised by 2020 according to top officials. As per the national plan for the next generation of high performance computers, China will come up with an excel computer during 2016-2020

  • Government of Tianjin Binhai New Area, NUDT and the National Supercomputing centre in Tianjin were working on this project
  • It will be called Tianhe-3
  • In 2010, China’s first petaflop supercomputer Tianhe- capable of million billion calculations per second started functioning