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Japan Takes Top Spot From China: Fujitsu’s “K” Is The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
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Japan Takes Top Spot From China: Fujitsu’s “K” Is The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:02 AM PDT

The International Supercomputing Conference is taking place in Hamburg/Germany at the moment – reason enough for the Top500 committee to update their list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers today. And it turns out that Japan, namely via Fujitsu’s so-called “K”, is the new No. 1 on that list.

“K” consists of 672 computer racks that boast a total of 68,544 CPUs and handles 8.162 petaflop/s (quadrillion floating-point operations per second). The computer destroys the former top of the list (and the new No. 1), the Tianhe-1A supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China (that computer “only” achieves 2.6 petaflop/s).

The last time a Japanese supercomputer topped the list was in 2004 (the “Earth Simulator”). “K” is expected to hit 10 petaflop/s next year. The Fujitsu supercomputer is located at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe.

Huawei Releases The MediaPad, The World Returns To Bed

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:51 AM PDT

Need a 7-inch Android 3.2 tablet with a 1.2GHz processor? Probably, but I doubt this is the droid you’re looking for. This is the MediaPad, a smallish, horribly advertised tablet from Huawei that, for some reason, caused quite a stir last week.

The device has no pricing and it doesn’t look like there will be a Wi-Fi-only model forthcoming, so we shall see how exciting this thing is when it rolls into grey-market electronics kiosks in Southeast Asia come Q3 2011.

It supports 1080P full HD video playback and features a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera and 5 megapixel auto focus rear facing HD camera, with HD video recording capabilities.
With HSPA+ 14.4Mbps and high-speed WiFi 11n Internet connectivity, the MediaPad doesn't just entertain – it keeps you connected.
The MediaPad supports HSPA+ data services, Flash 10.3 videos and comes preinstalled with applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Let’s Golf and Documents to Go.

via Eng