Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth

Stoobalou writes "An eight-petaflop Japanese supercomputer has grabbed the title of fastest computer on earth in the new Top 500 Supercomputing List to be officially unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg today. The K Computer is based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and smashes the previous supercomputing records with a processing power of more than 8 petaflop/s (quadrillion calculations per second) — three times that of its nearest rival."

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[mevets]

640K cores is enough for anyone.

Re:Imagine

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I'm pretty sure that we've moved all our beowulf clusters to a cloud that runs linux in soviet russia...

Re:The fastest rival isn't the show computers.

[ElizabethGreene]

In other news, company announces the system will be used initially for Bitcoin mining. The Payback period is expected to range between three weeks an two hundred years, depending on market conditions....