Japanese K Computer Passes 10 Petaflops

Nov 4, 2011, 00:05 AM by Michael Croft

HPC Wire | Fujitsu and RIKEN have announced that their "K computer" has passed the 10 petaflops mark. The system was partially completed when it topped the Top500 list in June with a Linpack result of 8.16 petaflops. The completed system has reportedly reached 10.51 petaflops on Linpack.

November 4, 2011 | Fujitsu and RIKEN have announced that their "K computer" has passed the 10 petaflops mark. The system was partially completed when it topped the Top500 list in June with a Linpack result of 8.16 petaflops. The completed system has reportedly reached 10.51 petaflops on Linpack and the peak for the final system is said to be 11.28 petaflops. The system is housed at RIKEN's Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe. HPC Wire