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Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on from the can't-possibly-beat-wopr dept.

deepexplorer writes "Japan wants to gain the fastest supercomputer spot back. Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene. Current fastest supercomputer is the partially finished Blue Gene is capable of 136.8 teraflops and the target when finished is 360 teraflops."

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  1. Get them out of the way... by krautcanman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well *somebody* has to say it:

    What we all want to know ... does it run linux?

    In Soviet Russia super computer teaflop YOU!

    i'm sorry .... so sorry. it had to be done.

  2. 10 Petaflops?!?!?! by sokoban · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's a whole lot of peta right there. I guess the japanese could be considered some real peta-philes then.

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  3. teaflop ? Hmmm...sounds yummy by priyajeet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Blue Gene is capable of 136.8 teaflops" What the heck is a teaflop ? :)

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  4. teaflops? by $cullyshouse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    blue gene can spill 138 cups of tea a second wow!

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