Waiting for the official ranking of the 500 fastest supercomputer in the world the bet is that after a gap of 5 years the US are going to claim the N.1 spot of the ranking, displacing the Chinese Sunway TahiuLight computer with SUMMIT, the new supercomputer installed by IBM at …
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As of Spring 2018 the fastest computer is the Sunway Taihulight, Wuxi – China. It has 10,649,600 processing cores, clustered in group of 260 each and delivering an overall performance of 125.44 PetaFLOPS (million of billions of instructions per second) requiring some 20MW of power. In the US the National …
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