Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has announced plans to build a successor to the Fugaku supercomputer, previously the fastest in the world. The Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) and Fujitsu will begin its development next year, Nikkei reports.

Image source: riken.jp

The new supercomputer will demonstrate performance for artificial intelligence algorithms of 50 exaflops with peak zettaflop-scale performance in selected tasks – the machine will be used to work with AI for scientific purposes. In other words, the system will be able to perform one sextillion floating point operations; zettaflops are a thousand times faster than exaflops, and if Japan builds such a system by 2030, it will truly have the most powerful supercomputer in the world.

Each compute node on the Fugaku Next supercomputer will have peak performance of several hundred teraflops for double-precision (FP64), about 50 petaflops for FP16 precision, and about 100 petaflops for 8-bit precision; HBM memory will provide a throughput of several hundred TB/s. By comparison, the Fugaku compute node delivers 3.4 teraflops of double-precision, 13.5 teraflops of half-precision (FP16), and 1.0 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

For the first year of development of the system, the ministry will allocate 4.2 billion yen ($29.05 million), and total government funding will exceed 110 billion yen ($761 million). The development will be led by RIKEN, one of Japan’s most renowned research institutes; and taking into account the fact that MEXT requires the maximum presence of Japanese technologies in the system, equipment development will be primarily carried out by Fujitsu. The MEXT documents do not indicate any specific requirements for the Fugaku Next architecture – it will probably be central processors with specialized accelerators or a combination of central and graphic processors.

If the successor to Fugaku runs on Fujitsu processors, it will receive chips that will come out after MONAKA, which have up to 150 Armv9 cores on board. We are talking about a component in a multi-chip configuration, distributed over multi-core crystals and SRAM and I/O crystals. The latter provide work with DDR5 memory, as well as PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.0 interfaces for various accelerators and peripherals. The core dies will be produced using TSMC’s 2nm process. The successor to Fujitsu MONAKA will have a larger number of cores and more powerful interfaces – it may be manufactured using a 1 nm class process technology or even more advanced.

admin

Share
Published by
admin

Recent Posts

A demo of Dispatch, a comedy game about a superhero agency from the former developers of Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us, has been released on Steam

Developers from the American AdHoc Studio, founded by former Telltale Games, Ubisoft and Night School…

12 hours ago

Digma DP-FHD800A LCD Full HD Projector Review: A Modern Approach

When you think about a home theater, you immediately imagine bulky projectors with a bunch…

12 hours ago

Lian Li Introduces HydroShift II LCD-C Liquid Cooling System with 360mm Radiator and Three Configurations

Lian Li has introduced a series of maintenance-free liquid cooling systems HydroShift II LCD-C. It…

12 hours ago

Apple: App Store App Developers to Earn $406 Billion in 2024

Amid mounting pressure from U.S. regulators, Apple has released the results of an independent study…

12 hours ago

ASRock Admits Its Motherboards Break Ryzen 9000 Processors

Following a report from YouTube channel Tech Yes City that ASRock linked Ryzen 9000 processor…

12 hours ago

Apple to Change OS Numbering: iOS 26 to Come This Year Instead of iOS 19

Apple is preparing a large-scale rebranding of its line of operating systems. This was reported…

1 day ago