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On October 25, 2007, [[NEC]] Corporation of Japan issued a press release announcing its SX series model [[SX-9]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0710/2501.html|title=NEC Launches World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer, SX-9|date=October 25, 2007|publisher=NEC|access-date=July 8, 2008}}</ref> claiming it to be the world's fastest vector supercomputer. The [[SX-9]] features the first CPU capable of a peak vector performance of 102.4 gigaFLOPS per single core.

On February 4, 2008, the [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] and the [[University of Texas at Austin]] opened full scale research runs on an [[AMD]], [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] supercomputer named [[Texas Advanced Computing Center#Ranger|Ranger]],<ref>{{cite web

|url = http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/

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In October 2010, China unveiled the [[Tianhe-1]], a supercomputer that operates at a peak computing rate of 2.5 petaFLOPS.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11644252 | publisher=BBC News | title=China claims supercomputer crown | date=October 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Dillow |first=Clay |url=http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/china-unveils-2507-petaflop-supercomputer-worlds-fastest |title=China Unveils 2507 Petaflop Supercomputer, the World's Fastest |website=Popsci.com |date=October 28, 2010 |access-date=February 9, 2012 }}</ref>

{{As of|2010}} the fastest PC [[microprocessor|processor]] reached 109&nbsp;gigaFLOPS ([[Intel Core#Core i7|Intel Core i7]] [[Gulftown (microprocessor)|980 XE]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://techgage.com/article/intels_core_i7-980x_extreme_edition_-_ready_for_sick_scores/8 |title=Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme Edition – Ready for Sick Scores?: Mathematics: Sandra Arithmetic, Crypto, Microsoft Excel |website=Techgage |date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> in double precision calculations. [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]]s are considerably more powerful. For example, [[Nvidia Tesla]] C2050 GPU computing processors perform around 515 gigaFLOPS<ref name="nvidia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_C2050_C2070_us.html |title=NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer |publisher=Nvidia.com |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> in double precision calculations, and the AMD FireStream 9270 peaks at 240 gigaFLOPS.<ref name="ati.amd.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/firestream/firestream-9270/pages/firestream-9270.aspx |title=AMD FireStream 9270 GPU Compute Accelerator |publisher=Amd.com |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref>

In November 2011, it was announced that Japan had achieved 10.51 petaFLOPS with its [[K computer]].<ref name="Petaflops">{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2011/20111102-02.html |title='K computer' Achieves Goal of 10 Petaflops |publisher=Fujitsu.com |access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> It has 88,128 [[SPARC64 VIIIfx]] [[central processing unit|processor]]s in 864 racks, with theoretical performance of 11.28 petaFLOPS. It is named after the Japanese word "[[wikt:京#Japanese|kei]]", which stands for 10 [[1,000,000,000,000,000|quadrillion]],<ref>See [[Japanese numerals#Large numbers|Japanese numbers]]</ref> corresponding to the target speed of 10 petaFLOPS.