Fujitsu developing RIKEN, fastest supercomputer in the world
Posted By: Bharat BhushanSharma | Aug 26 2009
Our fast computing desires need computers that are frontline of current processing capacity. To make things simple – supercomputers is what I mean. Just everyone is trying them and IBM with the Roadrunner stays ahead, now to give that some run for its money, Japan’s electronics giant Fujitsu is trying a 10-petaflop (one petaflop means one thousand trillion calculations per second) supercomputer, the RIKEN.
fujitsu riken supercomputer
Being built at the Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, RIKEN will be based on Fujitsu's upcoming eight cores processor, the Sparc64 VIIIfx. If built as projected to be done by the year 2011, the RIKEN will be 10 times more powerful than today's fastest system, the Roadrunner. Hope Fujitsu can pull it off.
Via: TechWorld
