Number of top 500 supercomputers worldwide 2019-2022, by country

As of June 2022, 173 of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers were located in China, a figure which is a third more than that of its nearest competitor, the United States, which accounted for an additional 128 supercomputers. Together, the two nations account for around around 60 percent of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

World's most powerful supercomputer

As the name suggests, a supercomputer is a machine with massive computing power, capable of working with huge amounts of data and performing incredibly complex computations. The most powerful supercomputer in the world as of June 2022 is Frontier, located in the United States. Frontier utilizes well over 8.73 million computer cores.

Supercomputer vendors and operating systems 

Chinese tech company Lenovo is the vendor with the highest market share among the most powerful supercomputers in the world, with other China-based brands such as Inspur and Sugon serving as its other competitors in the market.