PanARMENIAN.Net – A Japanese supercomputer named the fastest in the world uses her ordinary ability to identify possible remedies for coronavirus, the Guardian reports.
Japan regained the top spot this week for the first time since 2011, ending years of U.S. and Chinese rule at the TOP500 site, which tracks the evolution of PC processing power.
Your computer-compatible Fugaku can perform more than 415 billion calculations consistent with seconds, 2.8 times faster than the Summit formula developed through Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, which had the name when the 6th ratings were last released in November. .
Developed for more than six years through Japanese generation giant Fujitsu and Riken, a government-backed study institute in the western city of Kobe, Fugaku includes 150,000 high-performance processing sets and can check thousands of ingredients a week.
Supercomputers, which are more than 1,000 times faster than a regular computer, can be used to simulate nuclear explosions, perform virtual weapons testing, and design weather systems.
In seismically active Japan, Fugaku will design the effect of an earthquake and tsunami, and map escape routes, according to the economic newspaper Nikkei.
Although not fully operational until next year, experts expect the 130 billion yen ($1.2 billion) supercomputer to identify Covid-19 remedies from approximately 2,000 existing drugs, adding those that have not yet arrived in clinical trials.
He has already conducted simulations on how respiratory droplets propagate through divided spaces and overcrowded trains when car windows open.