Big Blue, Number Two
June 24, 2020
In the land of IBM, Watson works and the once towering giant, progenitor of OS2, and big disc drives that made “crash” a popular term is in the news again.
“ARM Based Fugaku Supercomputer Now World’s Fastest Supercomputer” reports that
The Fugaku supercomputer located in Kobe, Japan and developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited recently took the top spot in several supercomputer rankings making it the first time since June 2011 that Japan has held the Top500 supercomputer list crown and the first time ever that a supercomputer has simultaneously hit the HPCG, HPL-AI, and Graph500 world records.
And guess what company is Number 2? IBM and its IBM-built Summit system located at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When not working on Covid, Summit matches possible owners to stray dogs.
Stephen E Arnold, June 24, 2020