Fujitsu Has Been Dethroned, IMB Supercomputer Now Considered the Fastest in the World.

 

    IBM Supercomputer has become the world fastest calculating machine. This title once belonged to the Fujitsu, will there be a rematch?

 

IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer overtaken the  K Computer, made by Fujitsu, to become the world’s fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia has a whopping 16.32 petaflops at its disposal, meaning it can do over 16 thousand trillion (16 quadrillion ?) calculations per second. The new supercomputer chart, the 39^th bi-annual supercomputer list, was published June 18 at the 2012 International Super-computing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

 

The Sequoia is greater than 1.5 times faster than the Fujitsu K computer, What’s more, the power consumption is  7.9 megawatts compared to the Fujitsu’s 12.6 megawatts. Compared to the top-ranking machine on the first supercomputer chart compiled in 1993 the Sequoia is an incredible 273,930 times faster.

 

Here’s a Breakdown of How the Two Machines Compare

 

IBM Sequoia	Fujitsu K Computer
Performance	16.32 petaflops	10.51 petaflops
Architecture	45nm IBM Power	45nm SPARC64 VIIIfx
Cores	1,572,864	705,024
Power usage	7.9 megawatts	12.66 megawatts

 

 

Here’s the Top Ten List as Compiled in Today’s Chart