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Tianhe-1a was shown to have achieved 2. 57 petaflops (2. 57 ae'1015 floating point operations per second),
with Jaguar managing 1. 75 petaflops. The United states still boasts five of the world's top ten fastest computers.
Constructed by IBM the 120-rack Sequoia supercomputer has a peak performance of 25 petaflops per second
A petaflop is a quadrillion floating point operations per second. In addition to breaking the record for computing speed the research team set a record for the most highly parallel discrete event simulation with 7. 86 million simultaneous tasks using 1. 97 million cores.
It also is No. 2 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers operating at 16.3 petaflops (16.3 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
The Glenn Cluster provides users with a total peak performance of 54 teraflops (tech-speak for making 54 trillion calculations per second)
Drawing from 1, 572,864 cores, the IBM Bluegene/Q system clocked in at 16.32 petaflops per second, according to the LINPACK benchmark.
For clarification, a petaflop is measured as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. In less technical terms, it would take 6. 7 billion people continuously typing on calculators for 320 years to complete as many calculations as the Sequoia can get done in just an hour.
which registered at 8. 15 petaflop/s. In fact, of the top 10 fastest supercomputers, half of them were built by Big Blue.
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