(LONG HONGTAO)

Developed by Chinese scientists, Tianhe-2 is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to TOP500 on June 17. The TOP500 project is a biannual ranking of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world.

Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, clocked 33.86 petaflops. According to the National University of Defense Technology, which built the supercomputer, the computer can perform 54.9 quadrillion operations per second at peak capacity.

Its predecessor, Tianhe-1A, was the world's fastest supercomputer in 2010.