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Stories about: Sparc64 VIIIfx

World's Fastest Supercomputer Is Now Even Faster, Surpasses 10 Petaflop Barrier RIKEN and Fujitsu have just announced that the "K computer" HPC system that is currently under joint development has achieved a LINPACK benchmark performance of 10.51 petaflops, improving its previous performance of 8 petaflops reached previously this year. Even before this new result, the Japanese system was already... 2 November 2011 15:21 GMT Fujitsu RIKEN 10-Petaflop Supercomputer to Break World Record Takumi Maruyama, head of Fujitsu's processor development department, has talked about the company's future plans to build a new supercomputer that could deliver a performance of 10 petaflops. The upcoming system is expected to be ready by early 2011 and will become the world's most powerful supercomput... 26 August 2009 08:33 GMT Fujitsu Working on the Development of 'Venus' Processor Fujitsu has just announced that it is currently working on the development of an eight-core chip entitled Sparc64 VIIIfx that is expected to become the world's fastest central processing unit. According to available details, the processor, codenamed 'Venus', is expected to be capable of delivering a pe... 14 May 2009 10:39 GMT