Forward-looking: FugakuNEXT is a major step forward in how Japan builds supercomputers. For the first time, the country's flagship system will feature GPUs as an essential component, paired with CPUs ...

Japan is making a massive push into quantum and supercomputing, backed by significant government funding and corporate ...

Researchers have created one of the most detailed virtual mouse cortex simulations ever achieved by combining massive biological datasets with the extraordinary power of Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer.

Getting a better understanding of how the brain works is tricky, as living brains aren't easily prodded and analyzed.

The Japanese government is planning to award five companies 72.5 billion yen ($470 million) to fund the development of an AI supercomputer to reduce the country’s reliance on US technologies.

FugakuNEXT will combine Fujitsu CPUs and Nvidia GPUs in Japan’s next national supercomputer The system targets 600EFLOPS FP8 performance with a 100x application performance gain Riken, Fujitsu, and ...

It has been clear for some time that Japan wants to have a certain amount of economic and technical independence when it comes to cloud computing in the Land of the Rising Sun. This is what the fork ...

NVIDIA GB200 and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Networking Boost Japan’s Research in Life Sciences, Materials Science, Climate and Weather Forecasting, Manufacturing, Laboratory Automation and Quantum ...

Fujitsu has provided a new supercomputer to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) with a capacity of 31.1 petaflops. The new system, expected to be operational in March 2023, will be used to predict ...