Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Computer-K: supercomputer from Fujitsu

The company Fujitsu and the RIKEN Institute built the complex computer system, in the LINPACK benchmark 8.162 petaflops (Floating Point Operations Per Second, English for floating point operations per second) - this is a number with 15 zeros. By comparison, the former number one "Tianhe 1A" comes from China and bring it to 2.5 petaflops, a current Intel Core i7 processor with four cores remain below 100 gigaflops.

Supercomputer expect at the service of science and the military, for example, to calculate the impact of earthquakes or nuclear bombs. Their high computing power systems by the gain in the composite-powered. In some systems, additional high-performance graphics chips are used: they are very fast in parallel computations.

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