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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, the fact is that supercomputers do
not have to cost nearly this much. In fact, high-performance, energy
efficient GPUs can be used to build world-leading systems at a fraction
of the cost. ... 続きを読む
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/02/a-japanese-tale-of-two-supercomputers/
2012/02/21
A Japanese Tale of Two Supercomputers
