As reported by the portal livescience.comin 2025 the country is to start works on the first supercomputer Classes “zeta”. This is Fugaku Next, which will be built by Japanese companies RIKEN and Fujitsu.
Japan is preparing a revolution in the IT industry. Supercomputers will perform a trillion calculations per second
On August 28 this year, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, SportsScience and Technology (MEXT) has announced plans to create a new supercomputer. The Fugaku Next device will be able to reach speeds in a row one ZettaFLOPS. The FLOPS unit is used to measure how fast computers solve problems. Supercomputers with a speed of one ZettaFLOPS will be able to perform a trillion calculations per second. This is a breakthrough, as the largest Frontier supercomputers have only just broken the barrier of one ExaFLOPS – a trillion calculations per second.
Supercomputers from Japan will be a thousand times faster than today
Once fully operational, the Fugaku Next supercomputers built in Japan will be a thousand times faster than the most powerful machines available today. The supercomputer is expected to cost more than $750 million to build. dollarsThe equipment is expected to be fully operational by 2030.
One of the biggest challenges that will be faced when building a supercomputer will be finding a way to make it work efficiently. Portal hpcwire.com reported in 2023 that, according to experts, the Fugaku Next supercomputer will consume about twenty-one gigawatts of energy to operate, which is as much energy as twenty-one nuclear power plants produce.