When it is completed later this year, it might crank out up to 30 petaflops and use around 10 megawatts.
When configuration of the K computer is complete in 2012, it is designed to achieve LINPACK performance of 10 petaflops.
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The biggest supercomputer ever built handles 11 quadrillion flops (or petaflops, a 1 with 15 zeroes) and draws 13 megawatts, the juice of nine wind turbines.
This half-build system achieved the world's best LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second), to place it at the head of the TOP500 list.
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The LINPACK benchmark program, running on the part of the system that employs 68, 544 CPUs installed on the K computer being configured, recorded the world's top performance of 8.162 petaflops.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
At a theoretical top speed of 10 petaflops, the Stampede system would beat that, but because it won't become operational for several years, newer supercomputers will likely surpass it by then.
Titan is designed to deliver a peak capability of over 27, 000 trillion calculations per second, or 27 petaflops, a system that is over ten times more powerful than previous generations of ORNL computers.
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The current holder of the World's Fastest Computer title is the K computer, which was brought online in June at a computing institute in Kobe, Japan, and has a peak performance of 8.162 petaflops.
Now, the K Computer has met one of its major goals, as RIKEN announced today that using the LINKMARK benchmark, the K Computer has crossed the 10 petaflop barrier, being rated at 10.51 petaflops.
Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.
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