K again ranks World 1

Saturday 19th November 2011

Courtesy: http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/11/press-release

The "K computer from RIKEN and Fujitsu is more than OK, having taken No 1 position in the the 38th TOP500 list announced today in the US for a consecutive two terms in a row. The K computer, currently under joint development, was designated as being the world's fastest supercomputer.

The TOP500-ranked K computer system has 864 computer racks equipped with a total of 88,128 CPUs. The system achieved the world's best LINPACK performance of 10.51 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second) with a computer efficiency ratio of 93.2%. The TOP500 was previously announced in June 2011.

The certification ceremony was held at SC11, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, held in Seattle, Washington in the US.

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K again ranks World 1

The "K computer from RIKEN and Fujitsu is more than OK, having taken No 1 position in the the 38th TOP500 list announced today in the US for a consecutive two terms in a row. The K computer, currently under joint development, was designated as being the world's fastest supercomputer.