Japan prepares a super

Currently the fastest computer in the world is in Switzerland and is called Piz Daint, which has a power of 125 petaflops. This power is similar to that of the Sunway TaihuLight in China.

130 petaflops and 5 times less consumption than its rivals

In this kind of technological war of the petaflops, it is Japan that wants to join the battle with the announcement of a super-computer that would reach 130 petaflops, which would surpass the two previously mentioned super-computers.

Although the computer currently being prepared by AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan) would only outperform its rivals by 5 petaflops, the intention is to improve the energy consumption required to make it work. In the case of the Sunway TaihuLight from China, it requires about 15 MW to operate, while the Japanese computer would only require 3 MW, five times less energy consumption.

The Japanese supercomputer would use liquid cooling instead of traditional air cooling, this will also allow less heat generated than its rivals. This liquid cooling system is a solution that will be implemented in the Frances Tera1000 computer, which would reach exaflops for the first time, of course that computer will be ready only in 2020 and the Japanese would have everything ready by the end of 2017.

From Japan they assure that the computer will not be used for the development of nuclear weapons or for meteorology, as other similar proposals already do, although they do not clarify why they would use it.