Fugaku, which means Mount Fuji in Japanese is the name of Japan’s fastest supercomputer and now the world’s most powerful computer.
The system has taken the top spot on the Top500, a site that has kept track of the latest in computing power for the last two decades.
The Fugaku has a computational speed of approximately 415.53 petaflops, which is more than a thousand times faster than a regular computer.
Since the COVID-19 situation, the system has been busy running various simulations based on different environmental circumstances. For more information read the full article here.
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