Technological advancements in Japan have taken pace these days following the Walkcar, which is a portable vehicle that reads riders' minds and decide on direction, and a robotic zoo with different types of dinosaurs. This time Japan is in the news for beginning the development of the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Japan Supercomputer: Who's Going To Make It & How?
According to the latest reports, it is estimated that the AI Bridging Cloud Computer or AIBC will finish its work on the project by 2017. Japan has planned to utilize around 19.5 billion yen (US$0.17 billion) for the supercomputer project.
Japan is attempting to have a computer that will operate with high efficiency of around 130 petaflops, which will be quite more than what China's Sunway TaihuLight that has the processing capacity of 93 petaflops. Each petaflop unit is equal to one million billion floating-point operations in one second.
Japan Supercomputer: Features & Uses
Japan's AIBC is all set to start working on the nation's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology's project that aims to build the fastest and most-efficient supercomputer that could help interpret large amounts of data. Japan confirmed that it intends to have a machine to carry out research work by examining facts in bulk conveniently. The BBC states that the first application to be possibly supported by the supercomputer would either be to perform medical research or to better the software to ensure proper controlling of the driverless cars and robotics.
AIST Head Satoshi Sekiguchi referred to the Japan's supercomputer vision and said in a statement that he doubts if "there is nothing out there that is as fast." The best part of the supercomputer will be its enhanced efficiency and effectiveness that will be available without utilizing more power. In short, according to PC World, users will be able to access the supercomputer without having to source huge volumes of electricity.