World’s fastest supercomputer searches for coronavirus treatment

24th June: Japan’s fastest supercomputer searches for the treatment of the deadly COVID-19.

According to the report of Baaghi TV, Fugaku is the world’s fastest supercomputer developed in Japan that will identify potential treatments for the coronavirus.

As per the Guardian, a Japanese supercomputer that has been named the world’s fastest is using its extraordinary capacity to identify potential treatments for the coronavirus.

Japan this week regained the top spot for the first time since 2011, ending years of US and Chinese dominance on the TOP500 site, which tracks the evolution of computer processing power.

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The supercomputer Fugaku can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second, 2.8 times faster than the Summit system developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, which held the title when the twice-yearly rankings were last published in November.

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer is present at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture. The Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, is now ranked as the world’s fastest, its developers announced on June 22, 2020.

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 model climate systems.

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Fugaku will model the impact of an earthquake and tsunami, and map out escape routes, according to the Nikkei business newspaper.

Although it will not be fully operational until next year, experts are hoping the 130bn yen ($1.2bn) supercomputer will help identify treatments for COVID-19 from about 2,000 existing drugs, including those that have yet to reach the clinical trial stage.

“I hope that the cutting-edge IT developed for Fugaku will contribute to major advances on difficult social challenges such as Covid-19,” Satoshi Matsuoka, the head of Riken’s center for computational science, said in a statement.

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