There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – th

There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. Maybe China realised that bragging rights are worth very little, and that there's significant advantage in holding on to information that your opponents don't have access to.