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Thursday July 23, 2009 SPARC Powered: Japan’s Next-Generation Super
Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, today announced that RIKEN has decided to employ a new system configuration with a scalar processing architecture for its next-generation supercomputer. The supercomputer will boast a performance of 10 petaflops upon completion in 2012 using Fujitsu's SPARC64™ VIIIfx CPU (8 cores, 128 gigaflops). As the world's highest-performance general-purpose CPU, the processor offers both performance and energy efficiency, achieving a computational speed of 128 gigaflops per CPU. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Processors] ( July 23, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
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