Japan puts China in the supercomputing back seat and, unlike China, Japan didn’t have to steal the technology to do it. Japan’s ‘K Computer’ takes supercomputer crown Japan’s K Computer, which can crunch more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second, is the top supercomputer, according to the Top 500 list of high-performance systems. The K [...]
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