Finally, some good news for Japan.
On Monday, an international group of academics who track the increasing speeds of supercomputers released their latest list that shows that Japan’s ‘K’ supercomputer is now the world’s most powerful.The supercomputer, built by Fujitsu, is capable of performing more than eight quadrillion calculations per second (8.2 petaflops), making it three times faster than the Tianhe-1A, the Chinese supercomputer that previously held the top position. K is also more powerful than the next five systems on the list combined.
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