The K computer Became No. 1 in Three Benchmarks at the 2012 HPC Challenge Awards

English press release is now available on RIKEN website.

RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, and Fujitsu Limited announced that the K computer became No. 1 in three benchmarks at the 2012 HPC Challenge Awards Competition. It was held in SC12 and announced on November 13, 2012.

The HPC Challenge Class 1 Awards evaluate the performance of supercomputers from four different angles*, and the K computer became No.1 for the following three benchmarks;

- Global HPL

- EP STREAM (Triad) per system
- Global FFT

*For Global RandomAccess, the K computer is 1st runnerup.

More details are on HPC Challenge website.
Japanese press release is available at RIKEN website.

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