World's Fastest Supercomputer Resides in Japan
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:38 pm
It's a machine so fast it performs more computations per second than there are stars in our galaxy. It's so large it's housed in a building the size of an aircraft hangar.
Running 35.6 trillion calculations per second, the Earth Simulator is the fastest supercomputer in the world, almost five times faster than the next best one and as fast as the top 5 U.S. supercomputers combined.
Here's the article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... computer_1
Top 500 Supercomputers of the World
http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/
Running 35.6 trillion calculations per second, the Earth Simulator is the fastest supercomputer in the world, almost five times faster than the next best one and as fast as the top 5 U.S. supercomputers combined.
Here's the article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... computer_1
Top 500 Supercomputers of the World
http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/