Once installed, the platform will deliver performance in excess of 10x what is achievable with contemporary scale-out NAS systems.

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Professional graphics cards are purchased separately by professionals to get 3D graphics performance that is superior to the graphics cards that come installed in their PCs.

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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.

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