Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Japan’s K Computer Tops 10 Petaflop/s to Stay Atop TOP500 List

http://top500.org/lists/2011/11/press-release
Japan’s “K Computer” maintained its position atop the newest edition of the TOP500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, thanks to a full build-out that makes it four times as powerful as its nearest competitor. Installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan, the K Computer it achieved an impressive 10.51 Petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 705,024 SPARC64 processing cores.
OS Distribution:
  • Linux - 457 (+2), 91,4%
  • Unix - 30 (+7), 6%
  • Windows - 1 (-5), 0.2%
  • BSD - 1, 0.2%
  • Mixed - 11 (-4), 2,2%

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