Japan Spending $173M on Making the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The international supercomputer race may soon have a new contender: Japan is reportedly eyeing the world’s fastest-ever machine. Reuters this week revealed the country’s plans to spend ¥19.5 billion ($173 million) on the construction of a machine capable of making 130 quadrillion calculations per second—or 130 petaflops. For comparison, the world’s current top-ranking supercomputers—Sunway TaihuLight […]
