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Japanese “ATERUI” becomes world’s fastest astronomical supercomputer

1 December 2014 Astronomy Now

Capable of performing one thousand trillion calculations per second, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s upgraded “ATERUI” Cray XC30 supercomputer now offers the world’s best performance for astronomical simulations.