Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku

Japan's Arm-based 415-PFLOPS, 28MW Fugaku monster was today crowned the world’s most-powerful publicly known supercomputer. The system leads the official Top500 list, knocking America's IBM Power-based 148-PFLOPS Summit into second place. The Fujitsu-built Fugaku has a theoretical peak performance of 513-PFLOPS, or 513 …

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations!

That's a nice Fugak U to the CCP.

[Anonymous Coward]

Willy waving for the wired world ?

[spold]

Finally....

...they found Gene Amdahl's diary jottings in the cupboard.

(one for the IT historians)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Finally....

"I have developed a plan for a supercomputer with millions of central processing units but this margin is too small to contain it."

[Fruit and Nutcase]

and will be used to study all sorts of stuff from earthquakes and new drugs to energy sources and the fundamental laws of the physical universe.

*cough* some researcher or BOFH may be temped to slip in some crypto currency mining

[Anonymous Coward]

That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right?

Certainly more interesting than the iARM news.

Nice to know Fuji isn't dead yet. And Fuga Ku is a low hanging fruit for ElReg headline writers.

[Sampler]

Obligatory

Yeah, but will it run Crysis?

[sw guy]

Re: Obligatory

Answer depends on availability of Rosetta2 on it :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Obligatory

4.87PB of Ram should be be OK till the next update

[Anonymous Coward]

"Although none of China’s supercomputers"

Publically known right? I bet they hsve a shed load of power to keep all that surveillance running smoothly.

[John Smith 19]

I note the Intel microcode is a 3 address architecture.

Perhaps a more honest slogan for them would be "ARM inside (TM)"

[JJKing]

(Use a Yoda voice)

Mmmmm, the MIPS are strong in this one.

[Anonymous Coward]

48 cores

How long before 48 cores in a smartphone becomes standard?

RIP Intel.

[Rabbit80]

Re: 48 cores

At over 180 watts per processor, its more a case of how long before we have a nuclear power source in our phones.Admittedly, there is plenty of other stuff sucking power as well such as storage, RAM, cooling etc so that figure is probably a tad on the high side.

[amacater]

I won't believe it until it runs Debian ...

Which the new Macbook already does :D

[mhenriday]

富岳、富岳、

makes the Top500 far more interesting - can't wait till November !...

Henri