Today, the world's fastest computer, the Japanese Earth Simulator, has reached speeds of 35.8 trillion calculations a second.

The Earth Simulator remained steady at a relatively paltry 35.86 Tflop/s.

The Earth Simulator has fallen to fourth place, with about a quarter the computing speed of the new leader.

By comparison, the Earth Simulator, the fastest supercomputer at the time, cost approximately $400 million to build.

For comparison, the fastest super computer at the time, Earth Simulator, provided 35860 Gflops.

The upgrade of the Earth Simulator has been completed in March 2009.

The peak performance ratio on the Earth Simulator is also record-high 22.2%.

The announcement of the Earth Simulator's performance earlier this year took United States computer experts by surprise.

The Earth Simulator was apparently not selected since the two winners have been announced as of March 2013.

The projects were started in response to the announced construction of the Earth Simulator.