厲害了! 神威·太湖之光蟬聯超算世界冠軍!

China's Sunway TaihuLight has unsurprisingly taken the crown of the world's fastest machine again, according to the latest edition of the semiannual Top 500 list of supercomputers released last Monday.

最新一期超級計算機500強榜單于上週一對外發布。這個每半年發佈一次的榜單顯示，我國"神威·太湖之光"不出意料地再次成爲全球運算速度最快的機器。

The massive supercomputer, built entirely using processors designed and made in China, made its first public appearance in June, when it easily dethroned the former champion, Tianhe-2, also a Chinese system but built based on Intel chips.

這臺大型超級計算機全部使用我國自主設計、製造的處理器打造而成，今年6月首次公開亮相時，它輕鬆將"天河二號"擠下超算冠軍的寶座。"天河二號"也是中國研發的系統，但使用的是英特爾芯片。

TaihuLight is capable of performing 93 million billion calculations per second (petaflop/s). That's almost three times as fast as Tianhe-2, which had claimed No. 1 spot in the Top500 list for the past three years.

"太湖之光"可以進行每秒9.3億億次的浮點運算，幾乎是"天河二號"運算速度的3倍。在過去3年中，"天河二號"一直穩居500強榜單榜首。

That means a Chinese supercomputer has topped the rankings for eight times in a row, indicating the rise of China in the high performance computing field.

這意味着，我國超級計算機已連續8次蟬聯該榜單冠軍，顯示了我國在高性能計算領域的崛起。

In the previous list released in June, China overtook the United States in the number of total supercomputers installed. That was first time that the United States has not dominated this category since the list was started 23 years ago.

在今年六月分發布的前一次榜單中，在超級計算機的總數量上中國超過了美國。這也是自23年前該榜單首次發佈之後，美國第一次未能統治這一範疇。

This time, the number of systems installed in China increased to 171 from 168 on the last list, but the United States also made "a slight recovery" and now has 171 systems, up from 165 in the previous list.

而這一次，中國超級計算機的總量從上次的168臺增加到了171臺，不過美國也有了輕微的復甦，從上次的165臺增加到了171臺。