Fujitsu starts shipping next-gen supercomputer

[Ande]

Fujitsu has begun shipping the brains of a new Japanese supercomputer to be built at the government-funded RIKEN research institute and designed to perform 10 quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.

The system, called K, is massive. It's planned to have 800 racks of computing gear housing 80,000 of Fujitsu's SPARC 64 VIIIfx processors running at 2.2GHz, Fujitsu said. The processors will be interconnected with a high-capacity direct-connection network that permits fast communications between neighbors.

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[johnshaw1917]

Interesting read. Thanks Ande. And no, I don't think I'll buying one when it becomes available. Not unless I win the lottery or something!

[JayCub]

Thanks for the article Ande, as for Fujitsu most of the pc's for sale here where pretty limited, cheap and nothing to get excited about.. never mind John in a few years it will be smaller, faster and cheaper