Japanese supercomputer blisters 10 quadrillion calculations per second

November 7, 2011
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(Credit: Fujitsu and Riken)

The Japanese supercomputer “K” broke its own record this week by hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops), exceeding its previous speed of 8.162 petaflops, which had placed the system in first place on the TOP500 supercomputer list published June 2011, Network World Layer 8 reports.

The supercomputer  consists of 864 racks, comprising a total of 88,128 interconnected CPUs and has a theoretical calculation speed of 11.28 petaflops, according to its operators, Fujitsu and Riken.