With the Top500 Supercomputer bi-annual list just around the corner, The National Supercomputing Center in Tiajin, China announced that its new Tianhe-1A supercomputer has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. The benchmarks have been submitted to Top500.org, where the current top spot from June 2010 is held by Jaguar - the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray XT5-HE Opteron. Jaguar clocked in at 1.7 PetaFLOPS (1 PetaFLOP is 10 15 Floating point Operations Per Second) and China’s Nebulae jumped to number two on the June list at 1.271 PetaFLOPS.