Top500 has announced that Japan’s “K Computer” is still number one when it comes to the world’s supercomputers. The K is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and runs at a stupefying 10.51 Petaflops/second on the Linpack test; that’s 10 quadrillion calculations per second. It stole the number one slot in June of this year when, while only partially complete, it ran at 8.16 Petaflops/second.
Top500 has announced that Japan’s “K Computer” is still number one when it comes to the world’s supercomputers. The K is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and runs at a stupefying 10.51 Petaflops/second on the Linpack test; that’s 10 quadrillion calculations per second. It stole the number one slot in June of this year when, while only partially complete, it ran at 8.16 Petaflops/second.
K is the first supercomputer to break the 10 petaflop barrier, and it does it “old-school,” without the help of any accelerators or GPUs. It’s also said to be relatively energy efficient.
K is followed by a Chinese system, which runs at 2.57 Petaflops/second; the best US-run machines were lead by Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The new list is somewhat remarkable because it remains fairly unchanged since the last one in June of 2011—all the same competitors are there, just in different spots. This is the first time it’s been noted since Top500 has been keeping track.
The rest of the top 10 is as follows:
The entire list of supercomputers along with statistics and charts is available here.
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