Beginning Information Industry Co., the Chinese corporation that constructs the world's second-most-powerful PC, contain a picture on its Web site of Chinese President Hu Jintao through a visit.

The picture demonstrates, in a method that words can't, the notice that this government is providing to supercomputing.

China is currently getting globe attention for building the second-most-powerful supercomputer on the globe, the Nebulae, a 1.27 petaflop system, according to the just-launched Top500 list.

The apex system is Cray's 1.76-petaflop Jaguar supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Building a supercomputer is not just a testosterone-fueled contest to obtain the Top500 crown. High-performance computing, which permits public to model and expand imitation, is all concerning make a computing infrastructure for speed up product growth and research in every imaginable area.

Supercomputers might well be rising as a noticeable sign of fight national economies.

"There obviously seems to be a planned and strong promise to supercomputing at the extremely uppermost level in China," said Erich Strohmaier, who heads the Future Technology Group of the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is one of the originators of the Top500.

"I would not be amazed to see this novel system being go behind by still better ones and even a possible number one system inside a few years," Strohmaier said.