Are supercomputers worth their super price tags?
"Why do we have to aim for the world's No. 1 — what's wrong with being the world's No. 2?" Ever since that short question about Japan's vaunted K computer was posed live on national television in November 2009, Japan's policymakers have been haunted by ...
10,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second
In today's ever-more digitalized world, we all have a tale or two to share about how personal computers have let us down: like how they refused to let us run different programs at the same time or how the data was so heavy that ...
A team of researchers has won the top prize in the field of supercomputer research based on results it obtained using Japan's "K" supercomputer, the world's fastest computer. A group of researchers from the government-backed Riken institute, Tsukuba University, the University of Tokyo and Fujitsu ...
