Philosophy
That translates to 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second for the Japanese K computer. It computes fast and is quite hungry for power...9.89 MW, which "...is roughly that of 10,000 houses and its annual running costs are US $10 million."
With the advancements in quantum computing, the K Computer may be a dinosaur in under 10 years.
A Japanese supercomputer is now the world’s fastest, unseating the previous record-holder by nearly a factor of four. The K Computer, based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, can perform 8 petaflops — that’s 8 quadrillion calculations per second.
The next-best computer is China’s Tianhe-1A , which set a record at 2.6 petaflops last fall. The U.S.-based Jaguar computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now in third place with 1.75 petaflops.
K Computer topped the newest TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers, announced Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
K Computer, built by Fujitsu and entirely made in Japan, has 672 racks equipped with a current total of 68,544 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores. It will eventually have 800 racks and will be capable of performing 10 petaflops, according to a news release from RIKEN. RIKEN and Fujitsu plan to have the computer fully operational by November 2012.
At least two American 10-petaflop machines are set to come online next year — IBM is building Mira, based at Argonne National Laboratory, and Blue Waters, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is getting a 20-petaflop IBM model called Sequoia.
K computer will be used for global climate research, meteorology, disaster prevention, and medicine, according to RIKEN.
K computer [Wikipedia]
K computer website
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Philosophy
K computer...8.162 petaflops
That translates to 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second for the Japanese K computer. It computes fast and is quite hungry for power...9.89 MW, which "...is roughly that of 10,000 houses and its annual running costs are US $10 million."
With the advancements in quantum computing, the K Computer may be a dinosaur in under 10 years.
"Japanese Supercomputer Unseats Chinese Supercomputer, Is Now the World's Fastest"
by
Rebecca Boyle
July 20th, 2011
Popular Science
by
Rebecca Boyle
July 20th, 2011
Popular Science
A Japanese supercomputer is now the world’s fastest, unseating the previous record-holder by nearly a factor of four. The K Computer, based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, can perform 8 petaflops — that’s 8 quadrillion calculations per second.
The next-best computer is China’s Tianhe-1A , which set a record at 2.6 petaflops last fall. The U.S.-based Jaguar computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now in third place with 1.75 petaflops.
K Computer topped the newest TOP500 List of the world’s fastest supercomputers, announced Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
K Computer, built by Fujitsu and entirely made in Japan, has 672 racks equipped with a current total of 68,544 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores. It will eventually have 800 racks and will be capable of performing 10 petaflops, according to a news release from RIKEN. RIKEN and Fujitsu plan to have the computer fully operational by November 2012.
At least two American 10-petaflop machines are set to come online next year — IBM is building Mira, based at Argonne National Laboratory, and Blue Waters, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is getting a 20-petaflop IBM model called Sequoia.
K computer will be used for global climate research, meteorology, disaster prevention, and medicine, according to RIKEN.
K computer [Wikipedia]
K computer website
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Once all of unit's bugs are fixed, this will be a revolution in computing "USC receives first quantum computer" by Rachel Bracker October 30th, 2011 Daily Trojan USC on Friday became the first academic institution to house an operational quantum...
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Sir Maurice Wilkes June 26th, 1913 to November 29th, 2010 "Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies" November 30th, 2010 BBC NEWS The "father" of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer...
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There should be more. Money and prestige for individuals and universities are on the line. "University of Maryland gets $10.3 million grant to build advanced physics lab" by Daniel de Vise Friday, January 8, 2010; 8:20 PM Washington Post The work of...