Japan built the world's fastest supercomputer

Japan's Vision Technology Group is developing the world's fastest supercomputer at 130 petaflops, which means it can perform 130 million calculations within a second , 1 million times faster than the common computer.

The supercomputer is expected to be released in April 2018. It is called the ABCI (short for English initials - Al Bridging Cloud Infrastructure , meaning Cloud Computing Infrastructure. clouds ) worth 173 million USD.

ABCI's supercomputer in Japan needs 1,000m ^{2 of} space, equivalent to 30-40 cars.(Photo: CNN).

With the construction of the world's fastest supercomputer, Japan hopes to become the world's leading artificial intelligence research center.

This supercomputer is expected to run at 130 petaflops, which means that 130 million billion calculations can be performed in a second. After completion (expected in April 2018), ABCI will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world, surpassing the current champion is China's Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, currently operating at speed 93 petaflops (93 million billion calculations per second).

ABCI supercomputer does not need a mouse or a screen, it is not much different from a personal computer, but it needs a large space, about 1,000m ² , equivalent to the space for a parking lot 30-40 units .

China's Sunway Tahulight supercomputer is the fastest in the world at 93 petaflops.

Satoshi Sekiguchi, general director of the Japan Advanced Industry and Technology Institute, said: "The current supercomputing system is a million times faster than your personal computers.
Sekiguchi calculated that if a personal computer took 3,000 years to do a job, the supercomputer would only take a day. "

ABCI can help Japanese companies develop and improve unmanned cars, robots and medical diagnostics. Sekiguchi said that small everyday inventions, such as diapers, are the initial applications of supercomputers that no one knows.

Currently, the world's fastest supercomputer belongs to China's Sunway-TaihuLight computer. China uses supercomputers in weather forecasting, pharmaceutical research and industrial design.
2nd place belongs to China's Tianhe-2, which has a speed of 34 petaflops. Third is the American Titan supercomputer at 18 petaflops, the fourth is the American Sequoia supercomputer at 17 petaflop and the fifth is the American Cori supercomputer at 14 petaflop.