Japan's New Supercomputing Toy

deman1985 writes "As reported by UPI, Japan has unveiled their fastest supercomputer yet. Assembled from Hitachi and IBM components, the new system sports total performance around 59 trillion calculations per second and comes at a cool 5-year lease price of $30 million. Pictures of the beast can be found at Mainichi Daily News."

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59 trillion calculations a second equals exactly 59 teraflops, of which, 57.3 of the 59 teraflops is from a smallish IBM Blue Gene.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an IBM Blue Gene that does 280.6 teraflops or 280.6 trillion calculations a second.