World’s Fastest Supercomputer: Japan's Fugaku Retains Its No.1 Position

Harin - Nov 18, 2020

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer retains its title as the world’s fastest computer. Fugaku won the title for the first time in June.

According to the ranking organized twice a year by TOP500, Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer retains its title as the world’s fastest computer. Fugaku won the title for the first time in June.

The supercomputer is named after Mount Fuji. It is the result of a collaboration between Riken Research Institute and Fujitsu corporation.

Fugaku not only has the fastest speed but it also won in three other categories including performance in the industry, artificial intelligence, and big data analysis.

Thus, Fugaku is the first supercomputer in the world to dominate four different categories for two consecutive ranking periods.

Fugaku can perform 442 trillion operations per second. It is about three times faster than Summit, the supercomputer of the US. The supercomputer from Japan helps win carrying out powerful simulations for use in scientific research, military and industrial technology development.

Director of Riken Computer Science Center, Mr. Satoshi Matsuoka, believes that Fugaku will solve many difficult social problems.

Back in May, Fugaku was transferred to the Kiren Computer Science Center in Kobe, the same place where its predecessor, K, was discontinued last summer.

K Supercomputer — K, the predecessor of Fugaku, was discontinued last summer.

K was the world’s first supercomputer to perform more than 10 trillion operations per second. It topped the chart in June 2011 and held the number 1 spot for a year.

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