This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
In addition to China and the United States, Japan is also an opponent that cannot be ignored. In recent years, Fujitsu has been cooperating with the Japanese Institute of Physics and Chemistry to develop the successor of 'King' supercomputer. Its performance can reach 100 billion times. It's 100 times more than it is, but it's only about three times the energy consumption.
Fujitsu announced today that a new generation of supercomputers has completed CPU prototype development and is undergoing functional testing.
The strongest supercomputer in Japan today is Kyo. Its name is derived from Japanese numbers. The name of Kyoto K comes from the Japanese word Kei. 1 Beijing represents 10,000 times 1 trillion, because Beijing is the first to reach 100 million. Millions of performance super calculations, thus won two TOP500 championships in 2011, is the first in Japan in 2004 after the Earth Simulator supercomputer was squeezed first after Japan won the TOP500 again.
The Beijing Supercomputer was developed and manufactured by Fujitsu of Japan. It was said to be a SPARC64 processor with a total of 68,544 processors and 548,352 cores. However, it has not been upgraded in recent years. The TOP500 ranking has been pushed to the 10th by China and the United States. In the past few years, Fujitsu has been developing the next generation of Beijing Supercomputing with the support of the government.
Compared with existing supercomputers, the biggest change in the next-generation Beijing supercomputer is Processor architecture fully shifts from SPARC64 to ARM.
Previously, Fujitsu has announced the launch of its own ARMv8 SVE (Scalable Vector Expansion) chip, using a 512-bit floating point unit. Each node uses 48 cores + 2 auxiliary cores, and the IO and compute nodes are 48 core + 4 auxiliary cores.
According to information published by Fujitsu, The performance of the next generation of Beijing Supercomputer will be 100 times that of current, which is to reach 100 billion times, while the power consumption is only 30-40MW, compared to the power consumption of Beijing Supercomputer is 12.7MW, which means Japan's next-generation super Calculated with about 3 times the power consumption to achieve a 100-fold performance improvement.
Fujitsu has now completed the prototype development of its own ARMv8 processor. At present, a new generation of supercomputers has entered the functional testing stage.
