Japan Successfully Create World's Fastest Computer

Predicate super fast computers has now shifted from China to Japan. A professor of electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Jack Dongarra, a computer made ​​in Japan says it has the performance three times faster than China's super computer.

“This engine is impressive,” Dongarra said that is also the Director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory. “This is much more powerful than other computers.”

Super computer named “K” it managed to shift the Tianhe-1A from the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, which now occupies the second position. The third ranking as the fastest computer won the United States of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

 

Super computer "K" was built on the Fujitsu Advanced Riken Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. This is where the "K" "blended" to be the fastest computer. Then, the computers are assembled in a factory Fujitsu, Hokuto City, Japan.The race's fastest computer was attended by 500 global participants. Each computer will be prompted to run the standard mathematical equations. Computer "K" is able to perform up to 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second or 8.2 petaflops per second. "This equates to connect approximately one million desktop computers simultaneously," said Dongarra.He said the supercomputer will be used for earthquake simulations, climate modeling, nuclear research and weapons development and testing. Computers can also be used to explore oil and a quick count of stock trading.To build a superfast computer course will cost a lot and thousands of small computers that are connected in a data center. Computer "K" is built with 672 cabinets filled with the system board.Although the computer "K" is considered low-power, but power is required is the same engine with the power supply for 10 thousand homes and cost about U.S. $ 10 million per year.Fujitsu plans to increase capacity to 800 super computer cabinets so he could work faster and larger capacity as well.Behind the computer's short name, "K" in Japanese is the abbreviation for the word "Kei" which means 10 quadrillion, the calculation unit in the fastest computer in one second.Lately, the countries in Asia began to show "fangs" in the technology world. China became a battering ram with the first super computer, and now followed by Japan. However, the United States continued to dominate the fast-performance computer problem because it has five super computer and entered the top ten ranking.Currently, Dongarra said, is being built a computer system even faster. Super computer called Blue Waters is now being developed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.