Japanese computer geeks are celebrating a comeback after a Fujitsu-built supercomputer set a world speed record – beating the reigning Chinese machine and giving Japan the most powerful computer for the first time in seven years.
The Fujitsu “K” – a play on the Japanese word for 10,000,000bn, the number of operations per second it is designed to perform – topped the semi-annual ranking announced on Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
“This is proof that our nation’s technology sector is still healthy,” said Ryoji Noyori, project director at Riken, a government-funded research institute that collaborated with Fujitsu. “We have to aim for top spot.”