The K computer, named for the Japanese word kei meaning ten quadrillion, was a supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu and installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan. It was based on a distributed memory architecture with over 80,000 compute nodes and was used for applications including climate research, disaster prevention and medical research, running an operating system based on the Linux kernel.
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SignificanceIn June 2011, TOP500 ranked K the world's fastest supercomputer. 1 FAQs
What did the K computer's first TOP500 win mean for Japan?
It put Japan back in the top spot on the TOP500 list.
The June 2011 TOP500 list named the K computer the new number one system in the world, capable of more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second. That put Japan back in the top spot on the list.
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On 20 June 2011, the TOP500 Project Committee announced that K had set a LINPACK record with a performance of 8.162 petaflops, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world at the time
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The K computer - named for the Japanese word/numeral "kei" (京), meaning 10 quadrillion (1016) - was a supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
- In Group: Japanese Petascale Supercomputers, manufactured by Fujitsu installed at Riken Advanced Institute Kobe Japan
- In Field: Computer Architecture, Lead paragraph
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