Japan's supercomputer set a new record

Developers of the 'K Computer' supercomputer from Japan have announced that their "massive" machine has broken its own computational record when it is able to perform 10,000 million million calculations in one. seconds (million million equivalent 10 caps 15).

Last October, supercomputers with more than 88,000 central processing units made more than 8,000 million calculations per second.

Thus, with the newly established achievement, 'K Computer' has proven that it can operate 10,000 times faster than normal PCs.

Currently, supercomputers are often used by scientists to calculate and predict how tsunamis and seismic waves can affect buildings.

Chairman Ryoji Noyori of Riken, a developer of the 'K Computer' company, along with Fujitsu said: 'The fact that K Computer set a new record marked a milestone in the field of Japanese computing. . This superior computer is the national key technology, and will help lay the foundation for Japan's higher development. I am very happy that K Computer has achieved the important goals of the project, and through this we have demonstrated the superior technological power of our country '.