Japan's K supercomputer, once world's No. 1, to retire in Aug.

Japan's supercomputer "K" will retire in August to give way to a cutting-edge successor, the government-backed research institute Riken said Wednesday.The first supercomputer in the world to achieve a computing speed of over 10 quadrillion computations per second will end operations after nearly seven years and will be replaced by a successor, which is still under development, in around 2021 or 2022 at the same research center in Kobe, western Japan.The K went into full-scale operation in September 2012 after about six years of joint development by Riken and major Japanese computer maker Fu…READ FULL ARTICLE