Sorry Japan, America is once again the home to the world’s fastest supercomputer — for the first time since November 2009.
The newly created “Sequoia” cluster at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scored a whopping 16.32 petaflops with the Linpack benchmark, according to a new list released by Top 500 Supercomputer Sites today. The cluster ousts Fujitsu’s “K Computer” in Japan, which now sits at the No. 2 spot with 10.51 petaflops using the same benchmark.
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