{"id":4363,"date":"2021-11-22T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2021-11-22T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:00:26","slug":"fugaku-is-now-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-but-is-set-to-lose-the-crown-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/fugaku-is-now-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-but-is-set-to-lose-the-crown-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugaku Is Now The World’s Fastest Supercomputer But is Set to Lose The Crown Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Kobe-based supercomputer named \u2018Fugaku\u2019 has captured the title of the world\u2019s fastest computer this month, attaining a computational power of 442 petaflops which translates to quadrillions of floating-point operations per second.

For context, the second most powerful supercomputer is IBM\u2019s \u2018Summit\u2019, which has a performance of 148 petaflops. As such, Fugaku is almost three times more powerful<\/strong>.

The Japanese \u201cbeast\u201d cost $1.2 billion to build and incorporates 158,976 ARM chips made by Fujitsu, running a custom 64-bit Linux-based system. In total, it has 7,630,848 CPU cores drawing 29,899 kW of electric power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler \/ Scalable Grid Engine via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fugaku was commissioned in 2020 and has been used for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n