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Fujitsu Picks 64-Bit ARM For Post-K Supercomputer (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: At the International Supercomputing Conference 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, Fujitsu revealed its Post-K machine will run on ARMv8 architecture. The Post-K machine is supposed to have 100 times more application performance than the K Supercomputer -- which would make it a 1,000 PFLOPS beast -- and is due to go live in 2020. The K machine is the fifth fastest known super in the world, it crunches 10.5 PFLOPS, needs 12MW of power, and is built out of 705,000 Sparc64 VIIIfx cores.InfoWorld has more details.
(afp). Sofware developers across the world are celebrating. A coordinated effort which started ten years ago has reached one of its major goals: integration of every software ever written on the planet. The 10 GB release announcement mail by german developer Lennart Poettering includes a full listing of all the software incorporated. "We expect systemd to run only on very powerful machines" the mail reads. "systemd has completed a full bootup in a test run by a team of researchers from a japanese institution on the Post-K supercomputer". While traditional linux installations are rendered inoperable, developers expect that thanks to moore's law we might experience linux computers to work again by 2040.