Supercomputer “Fugaku,” developed by Riken and Fujitsu Ltd., ranked No. 1 in the latest “TOP500” world rankings for supercomputers based on calculating speed, an international conference of supercomputer researchers announced on Tuesday.
This is the first time in 8˝ years that a Japan-made supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s best, since “K” in November 2011.
Fugaku is the successor of the K supercomputer, which was also developed by Riken and Fujitsu. It can do about 410 quadrillion calculations per second, nearly 40 times more than K.
It is currently undergoing a trial run and is being used to search for potential treatments for the novel coronavirus. In the future, it is expected to be used in a wide range of fields such as meteorological and global environmental forecasting and drug discovery. The Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Ministry plans to spend about Ą110 billion to fully implement a system using the computer in fiscal 2021.
Originally published on https://the-japan-news.com
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