The leading-edge technology developed for Fugaku will hopefully "contribute to major advances on difficult social challenges such as Covid-19," Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the Riken Center for Computational Science, said in a statement.
The Japanese supercomputer is already being used on an experimental basis for research on Covid-19, including on diagnostics, therapeutics, and simulations of the spread of the virus, Riken said in a statement in April. Fugaku — which is another name for Mount Fuji — is scheduled to be operating at full capacity next year.
Powered by chips from SoftBank-owned (SFTBY SOFTBANK) Arm, the Japanese supercomputer knocked Summit into second place. Sierra, another US-built system, took third place, and two supercomputers developed by Chinese national research institutes, Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2A, rounded out the top five.
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