10 Fastest Supercomputers In The World


# 4 Mira

Site: DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory

Manufacturer: IBM

Country: United States

Architecture: BlueGene/Q

Processor: Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz

Cores: 786432

Power: 3945.00 kW

Operating system: Linux

Speed: 8.16 petaflops per second

Date Created: 2011

Mira was constructed by IBM for Argonne National Laboratory's Argonne Leadership Computing Facility with the support of the United States Department of Energy, and partially funded by the National Science Foundation. The supercomputer is useful for scientific research, including studies in the fields of material science, climatology, seismology, and computational chemistry.

#3 K Computer

Site: RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Japan

Manufacturer: Fujitsu

Country: Japan

Processor: SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz

Cores: 705024

Power: 12659.89 kW

Memory: 1410048 GB

Operating system: Linux

Speed: 10.51 petaflops per second

Date Created: 2011

The K computer is named for Japanese word "kei", meaning 10 quadrillion (1016). The supercomputer is currently installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan. The K computer is based on distributed memory architecture, with over 80,000 computer nodes. It is intended to have a variety of applications, including climate research, disaster prevention and medical research.