理研：富士通のスパコン「富岳」：8年半ぶり世界一奪還（動画）：
RIKEN: Fujitsu’s supercomputer “Fugaku”: Regaining the world’s highest：
RIKEN：富士通的超级计算机“ Fugaku”：八年半以来首次夺回世界最高
理研：
6月22日、スーパーコンピューターの計算速度を競う最新の世界ランキングが、公表されました。
理化学研究所と富士通が開発した「富岳（ふがく）」が首位を獲得しています。
日本として、世界一は8年半ぶり。
高速コンピューター開発を主導する米国と中国の2強体制に風穴を開けた。
デジタル社会が到来し、
- 高速計算機の進化は新しい薬や
- 素材の探索、
- 人工知能（AI）
活用などに革新をもたらす。
富岳の登場で、新たに手にした計算力を、企業や大学が優れた成果につなげることが出来る。
日本経済新聞
https://r.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO60655390S0A620C2MM8000?n_cid=NMAIL007_20200623_A&s=4
Japan’s “Fugaku” Supercomputer Rated World’s Most Powerful
Tokyo, June 23 (Jiji Press)
Riken said Tuesday that
“Fugaku,” being developed jointly by the Japanese government-linked research institute and other entities including Fujitsu Ltd. <6702>,
has been declared overwhelmingly the most powerful supercomputer in the TOP500 and three other global ranking categories.
It is the first time for a Japanese supercomputer to rank first on the TOP500 list since Riken’s K computer claimed the No. 1 spot in June 2011 and November the same year.
Fugaku, installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in the western Japan city of Kobe,
achieved around 416 petaflops, or quadrillions of floating-point operations per second, some 2.8 times more than roughly 149 petaflops for the second-ranking Summit supercomputer in the United States.
The calculations
were conducted by approximately 95.6 pct of Fugaku’s some 159,000 central processing units mounted on 432 computer racks.
The machine
is expected to achieve even faster computing speeds through future software improvement, according to the Japanese team.
The Japanese supercomputer
also ranked top in the High Performance Conjugate Gradients benchmark, which measures calculation speed for computer programs such as those for commercial use, the HPL-AI benchmark, measuring computing performance for artificial intelligence, and the Graph500 rating of a computer’s ability to analyze graphs, important for big data processing.
JIJI PRESS