The development of a new generation of super computers is Japan’s currently ambitious project, hand in hand with the National Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (AIST).

As recently learned, the government of the Asian country seeks to provide the new supercomputer with a “capacity greater than that of Fugaku, currently the second most powerful supercomputer in the world and also located in Japan.”

From the AIST they have indicated to the local media that with the new device, which they hope to launch in 2024, the country will be located “among the most powerful in the world.”

The Japanese authorities in the area point out that the new super computer will be available through the cloud for local companies in the field of generative AI.

“The Japanese Executive aspires with this initiative to support the development of artificial intelligence at the domestic level, a sector that is led globally by firms such as the American OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, or Google.”

The financing of the project is in charge of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Transport and Industry, which will make an investment of 32,000 million yen (226 million dollars) for the development of this ambitious initiative.

Among the interests behind this innovative work is “economic security, and in particular the aspiration that the machine can process large amounts of highly sensitive or confidential data for national security or for strategic industrial sectors, instead of depending on foreign firms for it.”

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Source: Unionradio

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The list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers keeps Frontier, the only true exascale computer, at the top, but adds Leonardo, Italy’s pre-exascale supercomputer, as a novelty in the top positions, which becomes the fourth most powerful in the world, the second in Europe.

Leonardo is a pre-exascale EuroHPC supercomputer based on the Atos BullSequana XH2000 platform, hosted and managed at the Cineca data center at Bologna Technopole, Italy.

It is the second European supercomputer that manages to place itself in the Top 5 of the most powerful in the world, located in the list only behind Lumi, which occupies third place, based in Finland, as indicated by the organization in the update of the classification. of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, Top 500, in a statement.

The Italian supercomputer is based on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer direct liquid cooling (DLC) nodes, each powered by four Nvidia A100 Tense Core GPUs, with 10 ExaFLOPS performance at reduced precision, and a single third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor, as Atos details on its website.

To enable the bandwidth and system performance required for high-performance computing tasks, Leonardo supports Micron’s DDR5 DRAM technology, as well as the Nvidia Quantum 200Gb/s InfiniBand network platform, with In-Network acceleration engines. Intelligent Computing that enable extremely low latency and high data throughput to provide the highest performance and scalability for AI and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

The data-centric partition is based on the BullSequana X2140 three-node CPU Blade and is powered by two 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, each with 56 cores.

The Frontier classification is led by a team installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee, United States), which in May snatched the first position from Japan and the Fugaku system, located at the Riken Computational Science Center in Kobe, which remains in second place.

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