Supercomputer in the world is Japanese

Japan made it to the top of the list of the largest supercomputers with the K, a machine capable of making 8.2 quadrillions calculations per second

The Japanese supercomputer was designed by Fujitsu, and is installed on the Riken Institute for Advanced Computer Science, located in the city of Kobe.

K, so the supercomputer is called, is now the holder of the first half of the ranking of supercomputers, created by the American investigator Jack Dongarra.

According to the researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, has a Japanese supercomputer calculation capabilities similar to a million computers.

Quoted by the Daily Telegraph, the researcher defines K as "a pretty impressive machine," which occupies 672 rooms, it consumes the same energy that about 10 000 homes and cost 10 million dollars a year to their creators.

The second largest supercomputer in the world is Chinese Tianhe-1A, which has a computing capacity of around 2.5 quadrillions calculations per second.

Japan has not topped the list of supercomputers since 2004.