ABCI (supercomputer)

2016: Supercomputer Announcement (5 Petaflops)

On November 25, 2016, it became known about the creation of the world's fastest supercomputer in Japan. It is planned to be used to reduce the cost and accelerate development and research in the field of unmanned vehicles, robotics and medical diagnostics, reports Reuters.

The project is planned to be implemented in 2017. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan will allocate about 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) for it.

Japan creates the world's fastest supercomputer

It is planned to develop a supercomputer with a capacity of 130 quadrillion floating point operations per second (petaflops).

As far as we know, nothing can work as quickly, "said Satoshi Sekiguchi, CEO of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, which will assemble a new supercomputer.

By November 2016, the world's most powerful computing system - China's Sunshine Taihulight - is capable of doing calculations at 93 petaflops per second. Among Japanese solutions, the maximum is 13.6 petaflops - such power is available from the Oakforest-PACS supercomputer built by Fujitsu.

The fastest Russian supercomputer, which is, "Lomonosov-2" has a peak capacity of 2.1 petaflops., Moscow State University (Moscow State University) named after M.V. Lomonosov which owns this platform, is going to increase its performance by at least 1.6 petaflops, spending 600 million on it. rubles About this in November 2016. reported TAdviser

As for the fastest supercomputer that they are going to create in Japan, it will be called ABCI (English acronym for AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure). Applications for participation in the competition for the development of this system will be accepted until December 8, 2016.

According to Satoshi Sekiguchi, the supercomputer, in particular, will be used in medicine to analyze patient data and then develop new services and applications based on them.^[1]

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