RIKEN and Fujitsu have taken first place on the 37th TOP500 list announced today at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'11) held in Hamburg, Germany. This ranking is based on a ...

RIKEN and Fujitsu today announced that the K computer (*1), a supercomputer currently under their joint development, has achieved a LINPACK (*2) benchmark performance of 10.51 petaflops (10.51 ...

The K computer is the world's first supercomputer that broke the 10 petaflops barrier. So how fast is 10 petaflops? The number ten "peta," or 10 quadrillion corresponds to 1 followed by 16 zeros. In ...

RIKEN and Fujitsu completed the development of the K computer in June 2012 and it started full-service from September 2012. This is in accordance with the High Performance Computing Infrastructure ...

Do you know about the supercomputer named "K"? Yes, it's that large-scale computer which became famous after a remark made by a Diet member, Ms. Renho, "What's wrong with being number two in the world ...

A collaboration between RIKEN, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, Kyushu University, and Fujitsu has again won top place for the K computer in the June 2015 Graph 500 ...

Today Fujitsu unveiled details about their ARM-powered Post K exascale supercomputer, which is planned for deployment at RIKEN in Japan sometime in 2021. Fujitsu has now completed the prototype CPU ...

Having fallen from the peak of the Top 500 list of super computers a few years ago, Japan’s K computer is back up there again, this time on the Graph 500 supercomputer ranking. Graph 500 is a ...

A collaboration between RIKEN, Tokyo Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, Kyushu University, and Fujitsu Limited has again won top place for the K computer in the November 2015 Graph ...

In June 2011, Japan’s K computer became the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving a speed of over 8 petaflops — or 8 quadrillion (8 million billion) operations a second. In November the same year, ...

1 Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan 2 Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan Computer ...