The as-yet-unfinished K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, is the world's most powerful supercomputer, operating at 8.162 petaFLOPS, or 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second - with capacity expected to reach 12 petaFLOPS sometime in 2012. Built in partnership with Fujitsu (Japan), the K Computer can model complex systems such as the climate, disaster prediction and medical research, and has received investment from the Japanese government to the tune of more than 100 billion yen ($1.25 billion; £772.4 million). The K topped the list of fastest supercomputers at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 11) held in Hamburg, Germany, on 20 June 2011.
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