China has always been the U.S.’s most intimidating competitor. From the days of the Korean War to today, in the IT generation, the Orient continues to wow us with their innovations. Though the United States has been a leader in modern technology (they currently have the world’s fastest computer in the Jaguar, a system that can perform the same number of calculations in a day as a normal computer does in 100 years) China is closely following. Recently, China created their own supercomputer, and it is regarded as the second fastest system in the world. Read the rest of this entry »