The Fugaku supercomputer, operated by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, was named to the No. 1 slot in an updated list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, which was published ...

For years, China has claimed the top spot on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers .Now it dominates the overall list, too, pushing the United States into second place.

To contrast that number, this month the top 500 supercomputers combined clocked in at 0.250 exaFLOPS (250 petaFLOPS). So the entire bitcoin network is roughly 256 times faster than all the top 500 ...

The number of supercomputers using Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake processors nearly tripled to 26 in the fall 2019 list from nine in the June 2019 list, when the server processors debuted in the top 500.

The bi-annual rankings of the Top 500 supercomputers for the November 2016 systems are now live.While the top of the list is static with the same two Chinese supercomputers dominating, there are ...

Most of the Top 500 supercomputers — 426 systems — now use quad-core processors. Only 59 use dual-core chips, and just four systems are based on single-core architectures.

The Bitcoin network outperforms the top 500 supercomputers combined For some, Bitcoin conjures ideas of a utopian decentralized currency, but many others these days think of it as a quick way to ...

Ranking the world's most powerful supercomputers. In order to update its list of the top 500 supercomputers twice every year, TOP500 uses Jack Dongarra's Linpack benchmark because it is widely ...

The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. That’s fun and interesting, ... among the top thirty ...

As it turns out, the processing power of these computers dedicated to mining for Bitcoins is somewhere between six and eight times greater than all of the top 500 supercomputers combined. Keep in ...