World’s fastest supercomputer “Fugaku’ begins operations

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The world’s most powerful supercomputer named “Fugaku”, developed by Japanese scientific research institute RIKEN and Fujitsu, has been made available for research work.
The development of the machine was started about six years ago in 2014 and was completed in May 2020.
74 research projects have already been selected by Japan’s Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST) and will be implemented from April 2021.
Fugaku will help the Japanese government to achieve its vision to establish an ultra-smart Society 5.0, where all people live safe and comfortable lives.
Fugaku computer has 100 times the application performance of K supercomputer and is developed to implement high-resolution, long-duration and large-scale simulations.
A portion of Fugaku’s research is said to be dedicated to COVID-19 related projects.