The Fugaku supercomputer, developed by the Riken Research Institute and manufacturer Fujitsu, continues to lead the Top500 rating, the standard rating of the most powerful machines in the world. It now has a record computing power of 442 petaflops.
Fugaku is considered the most powerful computer in the world for two years. collect now performanceAnd Energy saving And Ease of programmingAccording to the Riken teams. He also contributed to the study of the spread of Covid-19 in Japan.
It is now the standard for simulation, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Fugaku, named after Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, is based on an ARM A64FX processor and contains a total of 7630848 cores. His total score of 442 petaflops is nearly three times that of Dolphin, an IBM supercomputer.
Despite Riken’s promises to continue developing his computing capabilities, the Americans, as well as the Chinese as well, are working on supercomputer projects that can Blow up those numbers.
For comparison, the first place on the Top500 list, in 1976, scored a score of 160 mega-flops, equivalent to “JustA million calculations per second. It was the American Cray-1 supercomputer.
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