The world's most powerful supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight was launched in China last summer. Putting it into operation, Chinese experts have bypassed developers from other countries, and thanks to its computing power, scientists regularly achieve serious achievements. One of the last - the creation of the world's largest virtual model of the universe.

Not so long ago, scientists from Zurich also created their own model of the universe with their own supercomputer. This took them about 80 hours, but the Chinese supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight coped with the task in just an hour, and the scale of its project was five times greater than in the experiment of European scientists.

For modeling, Sunway used 10 million cores, each of which operated at higher speeds - so the Chinese scientists managed to speed up the calculations.

Modeling the universe, the researchers divide it into many particles that interact with each other. And the more such particles there are, the more accurately one can reproduce and predict the evolution of the Universe. In the 1970s, scientists could model about 1000 particles, now supercomputers can create a model in which the number of particles reaches a trillion, but Sunway TaihuLight has surpassed this result.

Despite the fact that Sunway TaihuLight became the fastest supercomputer in the world, Chinese developers do not stop there and plan to create a new supercomputer by 2019 that will be more powerful than TaihuLight 10 times.