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There is a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, and the last time it was updated back in June of this year, Fujitsu "K" (pictured) come out on top, taking place no. 1 from ANT 1A (supercomputer from China).
It was the first time since 2004 for Japan to claim those bragging rights and now the country's largest business newspaper Nikkei reports that the Government is already thinking about what would happen in 2020: by the time the plan is to develop, on a computer that handles the exascale computing or, in other words, one million trillion operations per second (this computer will be 100 times more powerfulthan K).
MEXT, Japan's Ministry of science is a score that can be up to $ 1.3 billion and has already roped in NEC, Fujitsu and Government Agency RIKEN to discuss details of the project. The goal is to make sure Japan remains on top in the race a supercomputer, as other countries invest, too. In February, the Government of the United States, for example, set aside $ 126 million for the development of exascale supercomputer in the budget for fiscal 2012.
Supercomputers are used for prediction of earthquakes and other natural disasters, climate change analysis, space exploration, etc.
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