Japan has recently announced plans to build a new generation of AI technology-based "Zeta-class" supercomputers with extremely high power. Japanese technologists believe that it will be able to work at least 1,000 times faster and more accurately than any powerful supercomputing system currently in use in the world. The country has named this high-speed supercomputer of the future 'Fugaku Next.'
Japan plans to commence construction of the Fugaku Next Generation supercomputer in 2025 as part of an ambitious project, with high expectations that it will be fully operational by 2030. Currently, Japan's renowned tech giant, Fujitsu, and the RIKEN Research Institute are working together to design it. In 2020, these two tech giants jointly built the Fugaku supercomputer, which was launched for use in 2021.
The speed of the currently operational Fugaku supercomputer in Japan is 537.21 petaflops per second (Rpeak), which was considered the fastest supercomputer at the time. It was the most powerful supercomputer until 2022. Moreover, as of November 2024, the Fugaku supercomputer is the world's 6th most powerful supercomputing system. It is installed at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Japan.
However, according to the Top500 ranking of November 2024, the American-made El Capitan supercomputer has emerged as the world's fastest supercomputer. This supercomputer, designed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has an incredible speed of 2.746 exaflops, or 2746.38 petaflops (Rpeak), per second. It has been installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the United States.
Meanwhile, the implementation of this new, ambitious "zeta-class" computing system project in Japan is estimated to cost approximately 761 million dollars. According to Japanese technologists, the speed of this next-generation supercomputer will be at least 1.0 zettaFLOPS, where 1.0 thousand exa-FLOPS (floating-point operations per second, or FLOPS) is considered equal to 1.0 zettaFLOPS.
No high-speed supercomputer currently in use in the world has yet achieved zettaflop speed. However, the American 'Frontier' supercomputing system debuted in 2022 as the world's first powerful exascale supercomputer. The high-tech 'Frontier' advanced computing system, developed by the American Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has a peak speed of 2.055 exaflops (Rpeak) per second. It is installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Moreover, according to the latest Top500 report, the United States has 5 out of the world's top 10 most powerful supercomputers.
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