Japan will create the most powerful supercomputer

According to representatives of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, one of the leading research institutions in Japan, scientists plan in 2020 to create a new supercomputer capable of performing one quintillion (million trillion) floating point operations per second.

The new supercomputer will be 30 times greater than the power of the most powerful supercomputer at the moment, the Chinese system Tianhe-2. Finance this development will be the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, reports scientificcomputing.com.

This development will be 100 times faster than the K computer supercomputer created by RIKEN and Fujitsu, which in 2011 occupied the first place in the performance rating. Therefore, experts RIKEN already have extensive experience in the creation and operation of high-performance supercomputer systems.

Introduction to the work of high-performance exam-level systems can advance some areas of science and technology to a new, qualitative level, which are based on intensive calculations and processing of large amounts of information.

Such supercomputers will find their place in the areas of drug development, research in the field of astrophysics, brain modeling and other areas that require very complex mathematical calculations.

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