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Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced that the supercomputer they’ve built in Kobe can speed through 10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second and going under the name the “K Computer”.

The K is named for the Japanese word “kei”, which represents 10 quadrillion. The super computer spans 864 server racks and over 88,000 interconnected CPUs, all able to work towards a common task. The last of the racks were installed at the RIKEN lab in Kobe, Japan this past August.

According to the industry standard Linpack benchmark, the K Computer’s average performance is about 93 percent of its peak 10 petaflop speed. In June, it topped the Top 500 list with a peak performance of 8.162 petaflops.

Earlier in the week, the Chinese uncloaked a world-class supercomputer built entirely with homegrown processors. The K Computer however is ten times faster, yet proving that not everything in this world is made in China.

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