We learned about computers and saw a video from about 10 years ago, saying that IBM's computer was the fastest. Even while researching this topic, I found a lot of links and youtube videos to the IBM computer. However, after looking through more pages, the most recent article I found says that the Japanese (not surprisingly) have the world's fastest supercomputer. It's super computer is called the K Computer. In the article I read here:
Article Link , explained how the K Computer was determined to be the fastest, saying that "
K Computer sped to the front of the class by achieving more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s)". They go on to say that the Japanese haven't held this achievement since 2011. Also that they use another special computer, the Linpack to determine which computer is the fastest saying that, "It tests the performance of a system for solving a dense system of linear equations and is measured in calculations or floating point operations per second, hence flop/s".
On another note, I checked out Mark J Stock's website. I remember his work at the Electronics Alive show last semester; in particular the photo with the mathematically calculated papers that flow across the screen with individual code on each one. (This was perhaps my favorite!) He made it for a dissertation on vortex's.
I also really, really loved his Japanese piece. It looked like blue smoke that was flowing around the bottom of the portait, more opaque in some places. It was made to look like a ocean wave, like that that the Japanese depict in their traditional drawings/painting. I think he did very well with trying to mimic their style and incorporate his own, unique techniques into the piece of art.
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