Supercomputer world ranking "Fugaku" ranked 4th in the world at 0:11 on June 23

The latest world ranking for competing supercomputer performance was announced, and the latest supercomputer “Fugaku” of RIKEN became the world leader in four divisions such as calculation speed.

The world ranking of supercomputers is announced every six months by an international conference by experts, and the first computer is "Togaku", a supercomputer that is being developed by RIKEN and major electronics manufacturer Fujitsu at a facility in Kobe. You have been entered.

As a result, of the six main categories, "Futaku" was ranked first in four, including the ones that compete for the most basic calculation speed.

The calculation speed was more than 400,000 times more than 1 trillion times per second, which was about 3 times that of the US supercomputer, which was the number one in the previous survey.

It is the first time in nine years since the supercomputer “K”, which was the former supercomputer at RIKEN, that Japan's supercomputers will be number one in the competition for computing speed.

In addition, we also ranked first in the department that shows the calculation methods often used for simulation, the learning performance of artificial intelligence, and the processing performance of big data.

According to RIKEN, "We were able to outstandingly show the world's highest performance in major items. We will be able to solve various social problems with "Togaku" and its technology."