
In late October, China reveiled a supercomputer at a technical meeting held at Jinan,China which is composed of 8,700 shenWei1600 microprocessors callad the Sunway BlueLight MPP .designed at Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai .It is among the 20 fastest computer in the world.Currently the Chinese are three generations back in the making of computer chips.According to several supercomputerexperts in US,Shanghai microprocessors are based on the same principles that are favoured by Intels most advanced microprosserors.
The supes computes draws only 1 megawatt of power which is a very small amount compared to Chinas Tianhe super computer(fastest in the world)which consumes 4 megawatt and the Jaguar which consumes 7 megawatt. It also has an elobrate water cooling system ,which is very important.