June 17, 2013 | China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, is poised to take the top spot on the next Top500 list. The system has 3.1 million cores, with Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge chips and Xeon Phi coprocessors, and can run at 54.9 petaflops. It will likely oust the 18-petaflop Titan system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (see, The Tennessee Titan) Computerworld