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 ...

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 ...

On September 28th, RIKEN and RIST (Research Organization for Information Science and Technology) officially made the K computer 1, a supercomputer developed since 2006, available for use by members of ...

The "K Computer" - a supercomputer that's the product of a joint venture between RIKEN and Fujitsu, has been named the world's fastest supercomputer at the International Supercomputing Conference. The ...

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 ...

Japan's K Computer, which can crunch more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second, is the top supercomputer, according to the Top 500 list of high-performance systems. The K Computer, housed at the ...

Remember the K -- the Fujitsu supercomputer that promised to do a whopping ten petaflops by the year 2012? Well, it hasn't reached that threshold just yet, but according to the latest Top 500 ...

K Computer, the Japanese supercomputer that took the TOP500 crown as the world’s fastest back in June, has improved on its own top score with a new 10.51 petaflop achievement. Put in other words, that ...