Fujitsu’s 10.51 petaflop K supercomputer is fastest on the earth

Fujitsu , sweaty palmed from the development of the K supercomputer , swore the colossal machine would manage a speed of ten petaflops by the year 2012. The trouble has paid off handsomely: the hangar-sized machine has a top speed of 10.51. In case you desired to duplicate that setup at home, you’d only need 864 racks, 88,128 processors and enough profit your back pocket to front an annual electricity bill of $10 million a year. The corporate would be spilling all at November’s SC11 conference in Seattle, where the K will cement its position because the fastest computer on the planet. One final thing — we’ve a hunch that this machine can well-nigh play Crysis .