[Beowulf] Japan knocks China off the #1 spot of the Top500 by 3X - a GRAPE machine ?

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 20/06/11 17:14, Christopher Samuel wrote:

> But I have a reliable source who claims that this is
> using GRAPE cards as APUs to reach its performance
> without causing (another) meltdown in Japan..

My reliable source appears to have been mistaken!  The
new Top500 press release says:

# Unlike the Chinese system it displaced from the No. 1
# slot and other recent very large system, the K Computer
# does not use graphics processors or other accelerators.

Chips are (according to @HPC_Guru):

# The K uses a SPARC6 VIIIfx CPU designed by #Fujitsu:
# 8 cores, 45nm, 128 Gflops, 2.2 Gflops/Watt

cheers,
Chris
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