Japan plans supercomputer to leap into technology future

Becky · Nov 28, 2016

Japan is reportedly looking to spend £140m on building the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a recent report from Reuters. The supercomputer could assist manufacturers in fields such as driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnosis.

In a move that is expected to vault Japan to the top of the supercomputing heap, its engineers will be tasked with building a machine that can make 130 quadrillion calculations per second - or 130 petaflops in scientific parlance - as early as next year, sources involved in the project told Reuters.

At that speed, Japan's computer would be ahead of China's Sunway Taihulight that is capable of 93 petaflops.

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