Tokyo: A Japanese supercomputer has introduced the record as the fastest computer in the world, performing a whopping 10 quadrillion calculations per second.
The supercomputer dubbed the K Computer which has more than 88,000 central processing units — the computer’s “brain” — compared with the fewer than four in the average desktop, smashed its own record of just over 8 quadrillion calculations during an experiment in October. A quadrillion is a thousand trillion.
The K Computer was commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, with the aim of breaking the 10 petaflop barrier.
The K Computer, named after the Japanese word for 10 quadrillion, ‘kei’, was a joint effort by Riken and Fujitsu. NEC and Hitachi had originally intended to help build the supercomputer, but the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the country earlier this year caused them to withdraw.
Supercomputers operate roughly 10,000 times faster than ordinary personal computers.
According to the industry standard Linpack benchmark, the K Computer’s average performance is about 93 percent of its theoretical peak speed of 11.28 petaflops. In June, it topped the Top 500 list with a peak performance of 8.162 petaflops.
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