Japan's development of new super computer 73 times faster than the current record

25, the Japanese government said that next year, Japan plans to start making faster supercomputers, the new supercomputer computing speed is faster than the fastest supercomputer in the world than the current 73 times.

According to the Japanese responsible for culture, sports, science and technology of the Ministry of Education said that the United States BlueGene/L system super computer is developed by IBM, installed in the United States of California Livermore Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, the super computer to keep the world's fastest computer championship. This device is capable of performing 136.8teraflops (floating point arithmetic) per second or 136 trillion and 800 billion technical calculations.

The Ministry of education, an unnamed official said that Japan needs to develop to be able to 10petaflops per second (petraflop) super computing power 5 or 10000 of the super computer so the operation speed is 73 times more than the super computing speed of BlueGene/L system.

Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported that the investment in the development plan between 80 billion yen to 100 billion yen, the Ministry of education will request the next year's budget of 10 billion yen. The Ministry of education officials did not determine the investment figures, is expected at the end of August of this program will be able to determine the scope of investment. But he said that if the budget is to be approved next year, the Ministry of education hopes that the next generation supercomputer program may start sometime in 2010, to the end of March 2011.

According to the world's "top 500 supercomputers" released a list of 2002, Japan launched the "Earth Simulator supercomputer supercomputer system, prior to the release of the BlueGene/L IBM in 2004," Earth Simulator supercomputer supercomputers is the world's fastest.

Held in the German Heidelberg international super computer forum in June this year, Japan's Earth Simulator supercomputer at the speed of 35.9teraflops is ranked in the global top 500 supercomputers in the fourth, after the two blue gene system located in the IBM company and NASA's Columbia system.

The Earth Simulator supercomputer is used to track global ocean temperatures, rainfall and the prediction of crustal movement and natural disasters over the next several hundred years. The Department of education needs to have a wider range of uses for the newly designed supercomputers, such as the formation of the Milky Way galaxy and the interaction of drugs with the human body.