Fujitsu has just announced that they have taken the crown in Supercomputer performance breaking past the 10 petaflop barrier. That is over 10 quadrillion operations a second. Seriously fast.
Just when we thought that Intel/AMD and x86 would take over the world
this beauty came along. For those interested in the speeds and feeds of the Kei Supercomputer - 22,032 four-socket blade servers in 864 server racks with a total of 705,024 cores!
This is a Supercomputer with specific workload profiles running on there. However, looking at the scale of the infrastructure involved, we are basically looking at multiple large scale Internet Cloud providers literally in this construct.
Traditional Cloud providers may well find themselves with a new competitor, the HPC Supercomputer crowd. Supercomputer are expensive to run, but they have all the connectivity and datacenter facilities that one needs......
Read entire blog at A Resurgent SPARC platform for Enterprise Cloud Workloads
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About jaspal.dhalliwal
A senior consultant in the IT industry for over two decades. Having worked in fields as diverse as large scale infrastructure architecture & design to IT Strategy formulation provides me with a deep insight into the evolving role of IT and its relationship to the business.
Passionate about virualization and its effect on how business strategy is formulated and enhanced.
Currently at the EMC Consulting Cloud & Virtual Datacenter practice, focusing on transforming organisational IT by bringing the Cloud business value proposition to bear upon the challenges of IT being a business partner and enabler.