On Monday, the most recent list of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers was announced at the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
Taking the top spot on this biannual list is the Fujitsu-made "K Computer," installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan. This massive processing powerhouse runs on 548,352 cores (68,544 CPUs with eight cores each) and is more powerful than the combined capabilities of the next five systems that follow it on the list.
By contrast, the second fastest system, China's Tianhe-1A, last year's champion, is powered by 186,368 cores.
Japan and China are each home to two of the top five supercomputers on this list. While only one of the top five resides in the United States, half of the top ten fastest systems are all located stateside.
You can check out the world's top 5 supercomputers in our slideshow (below). Visit the most recent list of Top500 Supercomputing Sites to view a list of the top 100 systems.
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