Japan Reclaims Top Ranking on Latest TOP500 List of World’s Supercomputers

[the_tyrant]

HAMBURG, Germany—A Japanese supercomputer capable of performing more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s) is the new number one system in the world, putting Japan back in the top spot for the first time since the Earth Simulator was dethroned in November 2004, according to the latest edition of the TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers. The system, called the K Computer, is at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe.

link: http://top500.org/lists/2011/06/press-release

More than 3 times as fast as the previous number 1, and around 8 times as fast as the top computer around 2 years ago!