Posted by Tokyo, Japan: Fugaku is the world’s fastest supercomputer. With this, the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku has retained the world’s fastest supercomputer title for the fourth consecutive term.
Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution RIKEN and Japanese technology company Fujitsu have jointly developed the Fugaku supercomputer. It has successfully retained the top spot for the fourth consecutive time on all four of the major high-performance computer (HPC) rankings.
This includes the TOP500 list, HPCG – a performance ranking for computing methods often used for real-world applications and HPL-AI, which ranks supercomputers based on their performance on single- and half-precision computing typically used in artificial intelligence applications.
Lastly, the Graph 500 ranking is based on graph analytic performance – a key element in data-intensive workloads.
During the SC21 High-Performance Computing Conference on November 15, the rankings were announced.
The results this time were made with Fugaku’s full complement of 158,976 nodes fit into 432 racks. On the Top500, it achieved a LINPACK score of 442.01 petaflops, on HPCG, it scored 16.00 petaflops, and on HPL-AI it gained a score of 2.004 exaflops.
A collaboration involving RIKEN, Kyushu University, Fixstars Corporation, and Fujitsu won the top ranking on Graph 500. It earned a score of 102,955 GigaTEPS (traversed edges per second).
“Fugaku has been researched and developed as an embodiment of our country’s world’s best IT technology, which combines performance, power savings and ease of programming,” said Satoshi Matsuoka, Director – RIKEN R-CCS.
For the fourth time in its history, Fugaku became the overwhelming world leader in key benchmarks for simulation, big data and AI. It has made great contributions to the formulation of infection guidelines for the government and companies to combat COVID-19, according to Matsuoka.
“It has helped produce results that are useful in the real world, bringing about a so-called DX through its high performance in various fields. Now, Fugaku has once again proven most powerful in a wide range of areas,” said Matsuoka.
“RIKEN will continue to advance the capability of Fugaku and utilize its power through the newly established “Office of Fugaku Society 5.0 Initiative” to achieve Japan’s Society 5.0/SDGs and a decarbonized society,” added Matsuoka.
Naoki Shinjo, Corporate Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Future Society & Technology Unit at Fujitsu Limited, stated
“We are thrilled that we were able to successfully claim the top spot on the major benchmarks for the fourth consecutive term. We hope that many researchers will continue to leverage Fugaku’s world-leading performance and will contribute to the development of science and technology and the realization of a safe and secure society,” stated Naoki Shinjo, Corporate Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Future Society and Technology Unit – Fujitsu Limited.
“Fujitsu has been researching and applying high-performance computing, including the realization of real-time tsunami prediction using Fugaku and will continue to promote this research to contribute to the realization of Society 5.0,” informed Shinjo.
Fujitsu along with the University of Tokyo and Tohoku University have jointly developed an AI model that can run on a regular PC in seconds. It has the ability to predict tsunami flooding in coastal areas in near real-time using the power of supercomputer Fugaku.
(Image source – Riken)