Enye yeeparameter yokulinganisa ukukhula kwetekhnoloji yelizwe, kubaphengululi abaninzi, kukwazi amandla amakhulu omntu ngamnye. Ngale nto engqondweni, singathetha ukuba la mazwe mabini ahambele phambili namhlanje yi-United States ne China, amagunya amabini alawula eli candelo ngaphandle kwento yokuba, njengoko besibona nje kwiiveki ezimbalwa ezidlulileyo, i-Japan ibisetele ukwenza into abakholelwa ukuba iya kuba yeyona supercomputer inamandla emhlabeni ngo-2018.
Ngaphandle kwesi sibhengezo, saphambi kwenjongo ye-United States yokuphuhlisa iimodeli ezintsha, sifumanisa ukuba ukusuka e-China abafuni ukuyeka ukuthathwa njengegunya lokuqala lehlabathi kwaye oku akukho nto ingcono kunokuqhubeka nokusebenza nokwenza i-supercomputer ehamba phambili ngakumbi kwaye ikhawuleza kuneSunway TaihuLight, ithathwa njengeyona inamandla ehlabathini, neyasungulwa ngoJuni ophelileyo.
I-China sele isebenza ekudaleni i-exascale yokuqala ye-supercomputer prototype.
Ukufumana uluvo, phawula ukuba i-Sunway TaihuLight inentsebenzo enjengeenkomo njenge-124,5 petaflops yokusebenza okuphezulu, into enokubakho ngenxa yomsebenzi odibeneyo we-10,65 yezigidi ze-cores okanye ukubonelelwa nge-RAM eyi-1,3, 100 petabytes. Njengeenkcukacha, xelela ukuba lo matshini waba ngowokuqala emhlabeni ukoyisa isithintelo se-XNUMX petaflops yokusebenza okuphezulu.
Ngoku, njengoko beqinisekisa kwiziko laseTshayina elinamandla amakhulu, basebenza kuphuhliso lwe i-exascale supercomputer prototype ekwaziyo ukwenza ubalo lweetriliyoni ngomzuzwana kwaye eya kuthi ibe ilungile ukuphela kuka-2017 nangona kungayi kuba kude kube ngu-2020 xa yonke inkqubo yokudibanisa kunye nezicelo zayo zigqityiwe. Ukuba oku sikubeka ngokwembono, sithetha ngale prototype malunga namaxesha angama-200 ngokukhawuleza kunekhompyuter yokuqala eyenziwe ziinjineli zaseTshayina, iTianhe-1, eyayithathwa njengeyona khompyuter inamandla emhlabeni ngo-2010.