Sumit Gupta, product lead for high performance computer at Nvidia, recalls the amused interest the company faced at the U.S. Supercomputing conference three years ago.

FORBES: Supercomputing and High Performance See Growing GPU Adoption

Tokyo, June 20, 2011 - RIKEN and Fujitsu have taken first place on the 37th TOP500 list announced today at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'11) held in Hamburg, Germany.

ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A

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.

ENGADGET: NNSA Sequoia supercomputer takes worlds fastest title, prevents nuclear testing