the RIVER – THE Japan plans to build the supercomputer fastest in the world in an attempt to provide the manufacturers of the country with a research platform that can help them develop and improve cars without drivers, robotics and medical diagnostics.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($ 173 million) in the project previously unknown, as part of a government policy to recover the prominence of Japan in the world of technology. The country has lost its leadership in many electronic fields, with competition from South Korea and China, the home of the machine with the best performance in the world today.
In a move that could push Japan to the top of the supercomputing, their engineers will be in charge of building a machine that can do 130 quadrillion calculations per second — or 130 petaflops, in scientific language — already in the next year, according to sources involved in the project said the agency "Reuters".
At that speed, the computer of Japan would be ahead of the chinese Sunway Taihulight, which is capable of 93 petaflops.
— as far as we know, there is nothing out there that is so fast — said to the "Reuters" Satoshi Sekiguchi, director-general of the National Institute of Science and Technology Advanced Industrial Japan, where will be built the computer.
The push to return to the avant-garde comes at a time of growing nostalgia for the heyday of the prowess technology of Japan, which has decreased since China surpassed as the second largest economy in the world.
prime minister Shinzo Abe asked that the companies, the bureaucrats and the political class to work more closely so that Japan can lead in robotics, batteries, renewable energy and other new growth markets.
DEEP LEARNING
In the area of supercomputing, the objective of Japan is to use calculations ultrarápidos to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence (AI), as the technology of “deep learning” that works with algorithms that mimic the neural pathways of the human brain to help computers to perform new tasks and to analyse data.
The applications of this technology include helping companies improve the vehicles without an airbag, allowing them to analyze large volumes of data traffic, visual, or help the factories to improve the automation. The new supercomputer japanese could help even analyze medical records to develop new services and applications, said Sekiguchi.
The recent achievements in this area came from Google DeepMind, with the program AlphaGo, who in march won a dispute with the south Korean Lee Seedol, world champion in the board game Go.
Already China uses the Sunway Taihulight for weather forecasting, pharmaceutical research, industrial design, among others.
The supercomputer will be available for a fee to the japanese corporations, which now outsources data processing to foreign companies, such as Google and Microsoft.
The new computer has been dubbed the ABCI, an acronym for "AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure". The tender for the project has started and will close on 8 December.
Fujitsu Ltd, builder of the supercomputer japanese faster, until today — the Oakforest-PACS, capable of 13.6 petaflops, refused to say whether it would bid for the project. The company, however, said he is eager to be participate in the development of supercomputers.
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