Japan-Based Fugaku Supercomputer is The World's Fastest Computer

by - June 24, 2020

The World's Fastest Computer Fugaku Supercomputer. 💻


Highlights

  • Fugaku has also topped other major benchmark lists
  • It is 2.8 times faster than the supercomputer at the second spot
  • Fugaku will go into operations in 2021
Supercomputers are used to perform highly complicated tasks such as quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, space explorations, and so on, which require high performance specialised calculations.

Fugaku, which was developed by Fujitsu (FJTSF) and government research institute Riken, ranked first in the Top500 list of global supercomputers, Fujitsu and Riken announced on Tuesday. It marks the first time a Japanese system has taken the top slot since 2011. This marks the return of a Japanese supercomputer at the top spot after nine years, beating out its US and Chinese counterparts. It is also the first time that a supercomputer based on ARM processors has topped the benchmarking list. Fugaku has further secured the number one position in other major rankings that test supercomputers on different parameters. Fugaku on Monday featured at the spot in the biennial TOP500 publication. The last time a Japan-based supercomputer secured the top position was in 2011, also developed by Riken and Fujitsu. The supercomputer is known as the "K computer".

The Top500 measures benchmarks such as processing speed and the performance of computing used in artificial intelligence and deep learning. 
Fugaku Supercomputer

Fugaku can perform more than 415 quadrillion (or 415,000 trillion) computations a second, making it 2.8 times faster than Summit, the supercomputer built by IBM (IBM) which previously held the top spot. 

Fugaku is powered by Fujitsu's 48-core A64FX SoC and is 2.8 times faster than the IBM's Summit supercomputer - which holds the second spot in this year's Top500 list. The Japanese supercomputer has also attained top rankings in other publications such as Graph 500, HPL-AI, and HPCG.

Powered by chips from SoftBank-owned (SFTBY SOFTBANK) Arm, the Japanese supercomputer knocked Summit into second place. Sierra, another US-built system, took third place, and two supercomputers developed by Chinese national research institutes, Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2A, rounded out the top five.

Speaking more about the achievement, Director of Riken Institute, Satoshi Matsuoka says, "In addition to its use as a supercomputer, I hope that the leading-edge IT technology developed for it [Fugaku] will contribute to major advances on difficult social challenges such as COVID-19."
The developers also announced that Fugaku is set to go into full operation next fiscal year. 

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