Japanese researchers and scientists plan to build the world’s fastest computer, an electronic brain known as the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, or ABCI. This machine will transcend the performance of all known supercomputers today by a significant margin.
ABCI will be able to work almost two times as fast other supercomputers currently in development by countries like South Korea and China, who are at the head of the race right now.
China’s Sunway Taihulight supercomputer runs at 93 petaflops, Japan’s ABCI can hit 130.
Japan’s leading Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a subsidiary of the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), will build the computer.
How much will the world’s fastest computer cost?
The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has approved a budget of 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) for this project.
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