Japanese supercomputer, called K and able to perform billions of calculations a second has become the world's fastest, as announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and confirmed by the traditional TOP500 ranking.
The new performance record achieved three times faster than its predecessor, China Tianhe-1A, which is "only" able to reach just over 2.5 petaflops.
If a petaflop is equal to 10 to the 15 (or 1 followed by 15 zeros) operations per second, K Computer performance is similar to what could be achieved with a million personal computers, explained Professor Jack Dongarra, to develop a list of the 500 fastest computers in the world based on their ability to process simple mathematical equations.
The third in the list is the supercomputer nicknamed Jaguar, owned by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, United States, which has a maximum speed of 1.75 petaflops.
The United States is four positions among the ten fastest computers, but the rise of China which continues to call attention to have two representatives in this list.
With this team, Japan back to the top of the ranking of supercomputers after being displaced from first place in 2004.
Proportional. A key design firm to achieve record Fujitsu is incorporating a processor's own creation that moves away from the trend of other supercomputers that use Intel and AMD products.
Due to its vast size, which currently consists of 672 compartments and will expand to 800, the Japanese supercomputer requires power equivalent to 10,000 households and operation costs about $ 10 million.
"This is not an inefficient model, but its consumption is proportional to its size," said Hans Meuer, general director of the ISC.
However, these figures raise doubts about their ability to evolve in the future.
"He has an impressive performance," praised the CEO of Intel's data center, Kirk Skaugen. "But it uses half the energy in 8 petaflops of what we think we need to achieve petaflops 1000 (in 2018)."
The new performance record achieved three times faster than its predecessor, China Tianhe-1A, which is "only" able to reach just over 2.5 petaflops.
If a petaflop is equal to 10 to the 15 (or 1 followed by 15 zeros) operations per second, K Computer performance is similar to what could be achieved with a million personal computers, explained Professor Jack Dongarra, to develop a list of the 500 fastest computers in the world based on their ability to process simple mathematical equations.
The third in the list is the supercomputer nicknamed Jaguar, owned by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, United States, which has a maximum speed of 1.75 petaflops.
The United States is four positions among the ten fastest computers, but the rise of China which continues to call attention to have two representatives in this list.
With this team, Japan back to the top of the ranking of supercomputers after being displaced from first place in 2004.
Proportional. A key design firm to achieve record Fujitsu is incorporating a processor's own creation that moves away from the trend of other supercomputers that use Intel and AMD products.
Due to its vast size, which currently consists of 672 compartments and will expand to 800, the Japanese supercomputer requires power equivalent to 10,000 households and operation costs about $ 10 million.
"This is not an inefficient model, but its consumption is proportional to its size," said Hans Meuer, general director of the ISC.
However, these figures raise doubts about their ability to evolve in the future.
"He has an impressive performance," praised the CEO of Intel's data center, Kirk Skaugen. "But it uses half the energy in 8 petaflops of what we think we need to achieve petaflops 1000 (in 2018)."
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