Fujitsu Ships Parts for the Fastest Supercomputer
10 petaflops... a lot of flops.
Fujitsu is now shipping the first parts to its next-generation supercomputer to the Japanese government-funded RIKEN research institute.
The supercomputer, called K, will have 800 racks with 80,000 Fujitsu SPARC 64 VIIIfx processors running at 2.2GHz.
Fujitsu announced this new processor during May of 2009, and great things are expected of it when it'll be the brains behind what looks to be the world's fastest supercomputer – by a fair margin. The only problem is that the computer isn't set to be up and fully operational until 2012.
The Fujitsu K is projected to be capable of 10 petaflops. Right now, the fastest supercomputer in the world is Cray's Jaguar system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 1.75 petaflops.
(Source: Cnet.)
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scook9 eklipz330what would they need all that computing power for?Things like discovering how the universe works and curing cancerReply
Both of which I am ok with -
meat81 Tamz_mscHow much power will it consume?Reply
I am waiting for the first Ass to say "Not more than a GTX 480!".... -
d1rtyju1c3 What a monster. That is over 5x faster than the jaguar. Amazing!Reply
The Jaguar only beat the IBM roadrunner by .71 petaflop's and that was only after a CPU upgrade. -
djackson_dba eklipz330what would they need all that computing power for?Reply
Figuring out how they will pay for all that power draw? -
liveonc djackson_dbaFiguring out how they will pay for all that power draw?Reply
Or maybe trying to figure out how they'll pay for the Fujitsu K? ;-)