The K supercomputer just got a bit quicker, boosting its computational output to 10.5 quadrillion calculations per second and making it the speediest number-crunching system on the planet.
Shut up and sit down, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tianjin National Supercomputing Center: you’ve just had your petaflops handed to you by Japan’s Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, whose K Computer is the #1 in the world.
