Fujitsu's Fugaku supercomputer helping fight COVID-19 in Japan:
Japanese scientific research institute RIKEN is home to the world's top supercomputer, with Fugaku being jointly developed with Fujitsu.
Fugaku is expected to be in full operation soon, but it is being used already by researchers in Japan for various matters, one of which is the country's fight against COVID-19.
"We anticipate Fugaku to be used for a wide variety of applications, including those of high concern in the general public around medical and pharmaceuticals, disaster and environmental, energy and production ... also industries from materials to general manufacturing," RIKEN Center for Computational Science director Satoshi Matsuoka said.
"But one very important area there is how we fight against COVID-19 and we have quickly stood up this program, COVID-19 program, even as Fugaku was being built, and, in fact, we did this in less than one month."
(Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Wednesday November 11 2020, @08:19PM (4 children)
So, I fully expect this computer to transform into a fighting robot, transverse space to battle the against either aliens, pirates, colonists, or the Earth Sphere Alliance, or to be partially assembled from its creator.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @08:27PM
We can't be too far off from a disembodied brain supercomputer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @08:42PM
GOJIRA!
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:42PM
I'm thinking it'll break up into a lot of blowfish-shaped nanobots to train the immune system to recognize the similarly-shaped virus as foreign.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:48PM
Be careful what you wish for. Very careful. Those Bokurano mecha robots from parallel Universe are typically 1640 ft tall.
Fugaku may be still too weak to handle them...
Uninstall, by Ishikawa Chiaki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YumcoOH70E0 [youtube.com]
Well, Fugaku was already on India Times 4 months ago:
Japanese Fugaku Supercomputer Is Now World's Fastest, Twice Faster Than IBM Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqebM9SoAlk [youtube.com]
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @12:10PM
Another Arm powered 'device' - specifically Fujitsu's own implementation of ARMv8.2 with a 512 bit version of the Scalable Vector Extension (SIMD but code can be written to adapt to different widths at runtime so portable between different 'sizes' of Arm processor)
:-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer) [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64#Scalable_Vector_Extension_(SVE) [wikipedia.org]