Japan a year started the new supercomputer with a power, record for the country, earlier

2021: Start the supercomputer at full power

On March 9, 2021, the most powerful in the world was fully launched. supercomputer A computer system called Fugaku, which has been developed Fujitsu by the Research Institute since 2014, Japan RIKEN is capable of performing more than 442 quadrillion calculations per second.

Testing of the system began in April 2020, mainly in projects aimed at analyzing research results and in projects aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that moment, the car did not work at full capacity, and in March 2021, 100% resources were involved. The Information Science and Technology Research Organization (RICH) has selected the first 74 projects to be implemented using the new technology in fiscal year 2021 (it will begin in April 2021).

RIST President Yasuhide Tajima noted:

The ultra-high-performance Fugaku computer is about to enter full-scale operation. I look forward to seeing when this most powerful "outer brain" ever created by humanity will help expand our knowledge, allow us to better understand the foundations of matter both in time and space, give us a better structural and functional analysis of life, society and industry, and allow us to make more accurate forecasts; and even design the unknown future of mankind.

Fugaku supercomputer launched at full capacity

Fujitsu President and Chief Executive Officer Takahito Tokita added that as the first supercomputer to receive four awards in key global rankings, Fugaku has demonstrated exceptional performance in areas such as big data analysis and artificial intelligence, as well as in modeling, which is traditionally a strength of supercomputers.

This is just the beginning for Fugaku and we look forward to seeing how he really demonstrates his enormous potential. First of all, Fugaku is a key national technology, and we will manage it responsibly in order to achieve research results that will help build a long-lived and healthy society, mitigate the effects of natural disasters and improve the use of energy, the ultimate goal is to implement the government's strategy on an ultra-smart "Society 5.0." In addition, we aim to provide researchers around the world with the best computing resources and use environment, "said RIKEN President Hiroshi Matsumoto.[1]

2020: Supercomputer Start Up

In April 2020, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and the Center for Computer Research at the Japanese State Institute of Natural Sciences Riken announced the launch of the country's most powerful supercomputer - Fugaku. It is planned to be used in the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19.

According to Nikkei, the system was commissioned a year earlier than planned, but it does not work at full capacity, but only one sixth. However, even this performance is eight times higher compared to the supercomputer K, developed by Fujitsu and located in the Riken research center in Kobe (Fugaku is located there and also uses Fujitsu technologies).

Japan a year earlier launched a new supercomputer with a record capacity for the country

Fugaku's capacity is provided to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for complex simulations and analysis of large amounts of data in coronavirus-related research. In particular, the machine will study the effects of drugs on viruses at the molecular level. It is planned to study about 2 thousand drugs that have not passed clinical trials, which can potentially help in the fight against COVID-19.

Supercomputer K was used to conduct complex simulations of natural disasters and combat them, simulations in the field of medicine and in other fields. 

Fugaku is being developed not  only for the progress of science, but also   to help build a society that the Japanese government called the "Society  5.0," where all people will live a safe  and comfortable life. The current initiative to  combat  the new coronavirus is based on the  Fugaku development philosophy  , Riken said in a statement.

About 130 billion yen ($1.2 billion) was invested in the Fugaku project with a design capacity of 400 petaflops. Money is allocated from the budget of Japan, private companies and organizations also help the project.^[2]

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