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PAGE 10 Unit 17 Chinas Progress in Supercomputing I．Lead-in Information related to the text Today, we’ll study Unit 17 —Chinas Progress in Supercomputing. China is solidifying its tech superpower status . China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer its top spot as the world’s fastest supercomputer. This text introduces the new list of the worlds top 500 supercomputers, released Tuesday, gives the top spot to the Chinese Tianhe-1A system, which hit 2.57 petaFLOPS , or quadrillion calculations, per second . The Chinese machine is located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, and its perform