Monday, June 20, 2011
8.16 PFlops Japanese K-computer is now world's fastest !
Japanese ‘K’ Computer Is RankedArchitecture based on scalar system
The K Computer, built by Fujitsu, currently combines 68544 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores, for a total of 548,352 cores—almost twice as many as any other system in the TOP500. The K Computer is also the fourth most energy-efficient systems on the list at 825 Mflops/watt. It also consumes the most raw power—a whopping 9.89 megawatts
BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 50M cores for Exaflops? Next year ORNL Titan with its 20 PFlops will dwarf it. That is tragedy of supercomputers. TO be at the top very short period of time. And a lot of time and efforts to get there.
THIS LINK posted by Joseph Bell : 9:32 AM
