A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest machine in a list issued by US and European researchers. The move highlights China's rapid progress in the field.

The Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, is capable of sustaining computation at 2.57 quadrillions of calculations per second. As a result, the former number one system -- the US Department of Energy's, Jaguar, in Oak Ridge, is now ranked second.

The third place is also held by a Chinese system called Nebulae, and it's located, at the National Supercomputing Center in south China's city of Shenzhen.

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