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Japan's Fugaku supercomputer is working to fight the coronavirus

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ICYMI: Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against coronavirus, is now ranked as the world's fastest.

FUGAKU. This picture taken on June 16, 2020 shows Japan's Fugaku supercomputer at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP

The list is produced twice a year and rates supercomputers based on speed in a benchmark test set by experts from Germany and the US. Fugaku, meaning Mount Fuji in Japanese, has been under development for six years and is expected to start full-time operation from April 2021. "I hope that the leading-edge IT developed for it will contribute to major advances on difficult social challenges such as COVID-19," Satoshi Matsuoka, the head of Riken's Center for Computational Science, said in a statement.

 

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