送交者: redneck 于 2006-3-04, 01:41:16:
Japan's supercomputer
The Associated Press
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2005
"TOKYO Japan could take top honors for the world's fastest supercomputer if it goes ahead with a plan to begin research next year on a new machine that would operate 73 times faster than IBM's current record holder, the government said Monday.
The American Blue Gene/L system supercomputer developed by International Business Machine Corp. at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, is currently the world's fastest.
That machine is capable of 136.8 teraflops, or 136.8 trillion calculations per second, according to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity.
Kyodo News reported that the total cost of the project would be between 80 billion and 100 billion yen (US$714 million to 893 million; ?593 million to 741 million) and the ministry will request 10 billion yen (US$89 million; ?74 million) for the next fiscal year's budget."
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