The recently installed supercomputer at National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen by China has come out to be the second fastest computing system, following the Jaguar.

Jaguar is located at National Centre for Computational Sciences in United States. It is utilized by the US department of energy for calculation and simulation for climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion, and combustion.

It has topped the list of world's fastest 500 supercomputers commissioned by Top500. org.

The United States owns nearly 282 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Second in the line is UK, owning 38 systems, followed by Japan who owns 18 systems and Germany and China with 24 systems each.

India added two supercomputers to its score, this year, while a number of other countries phased out nearly 12 of them.

On the whole, India has a 5 supercomputers operating at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, IIT Kanpur, Center for Development of Advanced Computing and IT service provider Hewlett Packard.

Tata Sons' EKA, manufactured for a cost of about $30 million in collaboration with HP, secured the ninth position in the list in 2008.

India's second fastest supercomputer has been ranked as the 94th in the list.