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Supercomputing, or high performance computing (HPC), recently had another moment in the spot light when IBM's Roadrunner was installed. Aside from moments when a machine operates at one pentaflop -- or when it plays a game of chess with a grand master -- you might not always hear about the technology. But, with the attention Roadrunner garnered, it's time to take another look at some other supercomputing machines that are processing calculations at seemingly impossible speeds.
FX1 by Fujitsu
The Fujitsu FX 1 is currently only available in Japan and is currently doing work for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The supercomputer is being put to work using numerical simulations that will help develop rockets, air craft and advanced space exploration systems. The core of the system is comprised of 3,392 FX1 parallel computing nodes that equates to a peak theoretical calculating performance of 135 TFLOPS.
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