{"id":111064,"date":"2021-03-25T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=111064"},"modified":"2021-03-25T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:08:29","slug":"supercomputer-fugaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/supercomputer-fugaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer Fugaku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : On 9th March 2021, Which of the following parties has been announced the completion and beginning of shared use of supercomputer Fugaku ?<br><\/strong>(a) RIKEN, RIST &amp; Fujitsu<br>(b) RIBF, Hitachi &amp; Seiko<br>(c) Jica research institute &amp; Mitsubishi<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Ans.(a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>RIKEN, the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST), and Fujitsu today(09 March 2021) announced the completion and beginning of shared use of supercomputer Fugaku, which has been jointly developed since 2014 by RIKEN and Fujitsu.<\/li><li>On the same day, RIKEN and RIST have started to offer the system for shared use, providing access for a wide range of researchers and users in academic and industrial fields.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Fugaku<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fugaku is Japan\u2019s supercomputer that has been developed as a core system for the innovative High-Performance Computing Infrastructure (HPCI) promoted by Japan\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).<\/li><li>In 2014, RIKEN and Fujitsu began joint development of Fugaku and completed delivery of all racks in May 2020. Since then, they have developed and optimized the user environment in preparation for the commencement of shared use.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chronology of achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the meantime, Fugaku has claimed the world\u2019s top spot for two consecutive terms in June and November 2020 in four categories on the major high-performance computer rankings: the TOP500, HPCG, HPL-AI, as well as the Graph 500, and has been used on a trial basis under the \u201cProgram for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku\u201d, &#8220;research projects aimed to combat COVID-19&#8221;, etc. since April 2020.<\/li><li>In these trials, two projects, &#8220;Study on Large-Scale Numerical Fluid Simulation&#8221; and &#8220;Largest Ever Meteorological Calculation&#8221; have already been selected as the ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalists.<\/li><li>Use of Fugaku and future development<\/li><li>Fugaku has won four supercomputer titles for the second consecutive period in the world\u2019s major high-performance computing rankings and is making full use of its outstanding potential to solve urgent social and scientific problems.<\/li><li>With its outstanding computational power, Fugaku will play an important role in building Society 5.0, the Super Smart Society, through the following technologies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fugaku boasts up to 100 times the application performance of the K computer, allowing for simulations of &#8220;high resolution&#8221; &#8220;long duration&#8221; &#8220;large-scale&#8221; and &#8220;multiple case&#8221;.<\/li><li>It is expected to have various impacts ranging from solving familiar social problems to helping improve understanding of fundamental science.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fujitsu.com\/global\/about\/resources\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/0309-02.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.fujitsu.com\/global\/about\/resources\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/0309-02.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : On 9th March 2021, Which of the following parties has been announced the completion and beginning of shared use of supercomputer Fugaku ?(a) RIKEN, RIST &amp; Fujitsu(b) RIBF, Hitachi &amp; Seiko(c) Jica research institute &amp; Mitsubishi(d) None of the aboveAns.(a)Related facts RIKEN, the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST), and Fujitsu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":111065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-111064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111066,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111064\/revisions\/111066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}