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Japan is reportedly planning to build a 130-petaflop supercomputer costing $173 million (£131 million) that is due for completion next year.
Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director-general at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be built, told Reuters: “As far as we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast.”
According to the Top 500 site listing the world’s fastest computers, the current number-crunching champ is China’s 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight, followed by its Tianhe-2, coming in at 34 petaflops. Japan’s most powerful system at the moment is a 13.5 petaflop machine. Overall, Japan has the fourth-largest number of supercomputers in the Top 500 listing, after the US, China, and Germany.
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Source: Ars Technica – Japan plans 130-petaflop China-beating number-crunching supercomputer