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World s fastest supercomputer Fugaku begins its shared use
On March 9, the development of the supercomputer Fugaku was completed, and shared use of the machine began. The computer, currently ranked as the most powerful in the world, was developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu starting in 2014, with the mission of becoming the core of Japan’s High Performance Computing Infrastructure, an initiative of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
The tape-cutting ceremony. From the left: High Performance Computing Infrastructure Consortium President Taisuke Boku, RIKEN President Hiroshi Matsumoto, RIST President Yasuhide Tajima, and R-CCS Center Director Satoshi Matsuoka. Photo: RIKEN.
Cooperation is key in addressing future global challenges
The SupercomputingAsia 2021 (SCA21) conference reflects this spirit of collaboration with a number of initiatives. These include the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will create a new
link between Singapore entities and Finland’s CSC-IT Centre for Science, the launch of the inaugural
HPC Centre Leaders Forum, and the first EU-ASEAN-Japan Symposium.
Singapore, 02 March 2021 – An MOU that was signed between Singapore entities and Finland’s CSC at the SCA21 conference is a reflection of the ongoing collaborative spirit in the HPC community. The MOU was announced by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-in-Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative at the Opening Ceremony of the SCA21 virtual conference, which adopted the theme “Supercomputing in the New Norm – Adapting to COVID-19 and beyond”.
Fujitsu leverages world’s fastest supercomputer Fugaku and AI to deliver tsunami prediction Feb. 17 05:50 am JST Feb. 17 | 06:38 am JST SENDAI/TOKYO/KAWASAKI
The International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University, the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories have announced the successful development of an AI model that will empower disaster management teams with the ability to predict tsunami flooding in coastal areas in near real-time, harnessing the computational power of the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu.
As part of the joint initiative, several high-resolution tsunami simulations were carried out using Japan’s flagship supercomputer Fugaku. A new AI model was then created using simulated offshore tsunami waveforms and coastal flooding conditions as training data.
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TOKYO, Feb 16, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - The International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University, the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories have today announced the successful development of an AI model that will empower disaster management teams with the ability to predict tsunami flooding in coastal areas in near real-time, harnessing the computational power of the world s fastest supercomputer(1), Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu.
Fig. 1: Overview of tsunami prediction with AI
Fig. 2: Comparison between anticipated flooding (tsunami source model created by Cabinet Office of Japan) of Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake and prediction results of newly developed AI