China has the most powerful machine as it has manufactured the world most powerful computer
The super computer at its peak can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations in every second.
It is twice as fast and three times as efficient as the previous leader Tianhe-2, also from China, said Top500 which released the new list on Monday.
The computer has its own advanced manufacturing applications which includes, weather forecasting and big data analytics.
It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.
For the first time since the list began, China has overtaken the US with 167 computers in the top 500 while the US has 165.
"Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing," said Top500.
The other positions in the top 10, published twice a year, are occupied by machines from Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
"As a computer scientist it's difficult writing software that can take advantage of and control large numbers of computer cores," said Professor Les Carr from the University of Southampton.
"This is why supercomputers are restricted to specialised applications - you need very specialised computing needs to take advantage of them.
"They are like extremely high-spec Grand Prix racing cars - they are fantastic for racing on circuits but they're not great for travelling from London to Edinburgh."
It has more than 10.5 million locally-made processing cores and 40,960 nodes and runs on a Linux-based operating system.
For the first time since the list began, China has overtaken the US with 167 computers in the top 500 while the US has 165.
"Considering that just 10 years ago, China claimed a mere 28 systems on the list, with none ranked in the top 30, the nation has come further and faster than any other country in the history of supercomputing," said Top500.
The other positions in the top 10, published twice a year, are occupied by machines from Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
"As a computer scientist it's difficult writing software that can take advantage of and control large numbers of computer cores," said Professor Les Carr from the University of Southampton.
"This is why supercomputers are restricted to specialised applications - you need very specialised computing needs to take advantage of them.
"They are like extremely high-spec Grand Prix racing cars - they are fantastic for racing on circuits but they're not great for travelling from London to Edinburgh."
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