TOKYO—A Japanese supercomputer built by Fujitsu Co. grabbed the title of world’s best-performing machine from a Chinese competitor, returning Japan to the top of the computer arms race for the first time in seven years.
Installed at Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research and also known as Riken, the Japanese government-funded “K Computer” performs more than eight quadrillion (8,000 trillion) calculations per second. K Computer is a play on the Japanese word “kei” for the number 10 quadrillion, which will be the number of calculations the machine is targeted to handle once it is completed in 2012.
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