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Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle

April 16, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle

RIKEN and Fujitsu announced that they have finished the design of the Post-K exascale platform, paving the way for production of the hardware, followed by shipping and installation. …

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Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era

February 8, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …

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