Computers Blog Japan Claims Fastest Supercomputer Title
Two years ago, the United States still has the fastest supercomputer in the world, the Department of Energy's Jaguar which is housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Last year, however, it was dethroned by China's Tianhe-1A. But the Chinese won't be able to retain their title this year for having the fastest supercomputer in the world because Japan already have their hands on it. Japan's K Computer registered a whopping 8 quadrillion calculations per second, or 8 petaflop/s. China's Tianhe-1A, the second placer, only has 2.6 petaflops/s. The United State's Jaguar supercomputer scored 1.75 petaflop/s getting the 3rd place. The K Computer comes as a surprise from Japan, which a lot of people thought of having changed its priorities in the past and left the supercomputing battle to other world supercomputing superpowers like the US, China, Germany, UK and France. Japan's K Computer, China's Tianhe-1A and the American Jaguar form the top 3. Completing the top 5 of the world's fastest supercomputers is another Chinese supercomputer known as the Nebulae from the National Supercomputing Center scoring 1.25 petaflop/s and another Japanese supercomputer called the Tsubame which scored a humble 1.19 petaflop/s. The benchmark used in ranking supercomputers is called the Linpack which uses the floating points operations per second or petaflop/s.
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