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8.1 Petaflops: new supercomputer

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New Supercomputer in Japan

zdnet.com, June 20, 2011


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from zdnet.com: "Japan's K Computer took over first place as the top-performing supercomputer in the world as determined by the Top500 Supercomputing List. The K Computer, which is housed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, has 672 computer racks and 68,544 CPUs. This system achieved a LINPACK benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second)."




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