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The TOP500 ranking list began in 1993 and is updated twice a year in June and November.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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The TOP500-ranked K computer system, currently in the configuration stage, has 672 computer racks equipped with a current total of 68, 544 CPUs.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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This is the first time since June 2004 that the Japanese supercomputer "Earth Simulator" has been ranked first on the TOP500 list.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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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.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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This gave it the number-one position on the TOP500 list.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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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
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To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
ENGADGET: Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A
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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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