OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE — The U.S. has unveiled its latest supercomputer which is twice as powerful as the world's current leader. <br />The Summit supercomputer can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second — or 200 petaflops, the BBC reports.<br /><br />China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer had been the most powerful machine with 93 petaflops of processing power. <br />Summit will be used first in the areas of astrophysics, cancer research and systems biology, the BBC reports. <br /><br />The computer was developed in tandem by IBM and NVidia, and is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, in Tennessee.<br /><br />The supercomputer has 4,608 compute servers and has more than 10 petabytes of memory. <br /><br />According to the BBC, the U.S. now has 143 of the world's top 500 supercomputers, while China has 202.
