K computer

Fujitsu Limited ^ | November 2, 2011 | Public and Investor Relations Division

[mamelukesabre]

Tokyo, November 2, 2011 — RIKEN and Fujitsu today announced that the "K computer(1)," which is a supercomputer currently under their joint development, has achieved a LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 10.51 petaflops (10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second).

The supercomputer system used for these tests is in its final configuration of 864 racks, comprising a total of 88,128 interconnected CPUs. With an execution efficiency of 93.2%, this system further exceeds its first place winning performance on the 37th TOP500 list(3) international ranking of supercomputers published in June 2011, where it scored 93.0%.

Although development is still underway to adjust the system software, the K computer achieved the goal of a LINPACK score of 10 petaflops, a performance target set as a national core technology as part of Japan's 3rd Science and Technology Basic Plan.

[mamelukesabre]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

Notice that USA's biggest super computer (the cray jaguar) is now only at number 3 in the world in terms of computing power. However, of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, 255 of them are in the USA.

[Bigh4u2]

Impressive.

But the real question is:

Will is still play Quake 3??

:0)

[apillar]

Where can I place my order?

Maybe this rig I can finally play Call of Duty: MW3 and Elder Scrolls: Skyrim with a minimum of lag and low frame rates...

[bgill]

Beat me to it. I just want a computer that will play my old games.

[Red Badger]

But will it run Android?........................

[taxcutisapayraise]

Optional cupholder?

[ShadowAce]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'd be willing to bet that the K Computer won't take 750 million years to compute the answer to a simple question.

Although, it would probably arrive at the same answer. 42.

[Mr. K]

Me too- I am tempted to take one of my old one (from 2 or 3 years ago) and reformat it to run DOS

It would be cool to see some of my old games running at screaming speed ( F-15 Retailiator was FUN)

[DManA]

I read where it takes 9.9 megawatts to run it.

[Recon Dad]

....what colors will it come in?

I like to download movies..I’m thinking one of these bad boys hooked up to a bitchin high speed line I could download all movies ever made in under an hour...I won’t be downloading Godfather 3 or Water World though.

[DManA]

From Scientific American

K computer:

Memory: 30 quadrillion bytes
Speed: 8.2 billion megaflops

Human being:
Memory: 3.5 quadrillion bytes
Speed: 2.2 billion megaflops.

[montyspython]

[montyspython]

Liberal:
Memory: 8k
Speed: flatline

[Ramius]

From the headline I thought Chrysler was introducing a new computer line.

[mamelukesabre]

Anybody know where I could look up silicon wafer production stats by country? There can’t be too many places in the world that produce wafers.

[DJ MacWoW]

Stop Goofing Off And Donate

Click The Pic

[Razzz42]

You can start here.... iSuppli....but it really depends on what you consider wafers are used for, big box machines and/or phone and tablet chips.

[mamelukesabre]

Thanks.

I don’t care what its used for. I was just curious how many wafers were produced(for all electronics) and where they were produced. I suppose it would be easier to measure it in pounds of monocrystaline silicon cylindrical ingot produced per annum of...say the top ten nations. I have a hunch over 50% of it is produced in north america and at least 25% produced in japan...but I could be wrong.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Any relation to the K Car?