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A Japanese Tale of Two Supercomputers
BY Sumit Gupta on February 16, 2012 in Supercomputing
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insideHPC is reporting that legislators in Japan are questioning the benefit of spending 112 billion Yen (about $1.4 billion U.S. dollars) for its K supercomputer, the world’s number 1 fastest system according to the Top500 list. I leave it to the Japanese officials to decide if the K system was a justified expense. But regardless,....
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