Japan to build 'Fuyue Next' ZettaFLOPS supercomputer for 750 million US dollars, increasing speed by 1000 times
The "Fuyue Next" supercomputer to be built in Japan requires 750 million US dollars and is expected to be the world's fastest ZettaFLOPS supercomputer, which will be put into use by 2030.
The battle of supercomputers is about to escalate, and Japan is embarking on a journey to build its first Zetta class supercomputer. Surprisingly, Oracle may have developed the first Zetta class supercomputer earlier than Japan. According to reports, Japan is preparing its next supercomputer, called "Fuyue Next".
Fuyue Next will replace the current fastest supercomputer in Japan, "Fuyue," with a speed increase of over 2000 times. The performance of Fuyue is as high as 442 petaFLOPS, equivalent to 442 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. This has enabled Fuyue to enter the TOP500 list of supercomputers, currently ranking fourth. However, the performance of Fuyue Next will reach zettaFLOPS, which is equivalent to 100000 floating-point operations per second (10 ^ 21).
In contrast, the fastest supercomputer currently available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, Frontier, can achieve 1.206 exaFLOPS or 120.6 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The performance of Fuyue Next will be about 1000 times higher than Frontier. At present, this is only a theoretical imagination. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is leading the project and preparing to invest over 750 million US dollars, so it is possible to achieve it.
In the first year, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will invest approximately 29 million US dollars, but the investment amount will increase as development progresses in the coming years. The project is expected to be completed by 2030, at which point Fuyue Next may become the first supercomputer to achieve zettaFLOPS performance.
However, as Oracle recently revealed, OCI Supercluster has the potential to become the first supercomputer to achieve this feat, and it will be faster with a performance of up to 2.4 zettaFLOPS. To this end, Oracle will deploy 131072 upcoming NVIDIA Blackwell data center GPUs, which is almost three times the GPUs currently used by Frontier.
However, this requires an unprecedented amount of electricity supply to operate smoothly. The amount of electricity required for Fuyue Next is equivalent to the power generation of 21 nuclear power plants, which is also one of the biggest challenges facing Japan's efficient operation of supercomputers. Due to the use of components from the same company Fujitsu, "Fuyue Next" may be cross compatible with "Fuyue". With such a large project, Japan plans to make progress in multiple fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, astrophysics, energy research, medical research, and climate modeling.
Fuyue Next will replace the current fastest supercomputer in Japan, "Fuyue," with a speed increase of over 2000 times. The performance of Fuyue is as high as 442 petaFLOPS, equivalent to 442 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. This has enabled Fuyue to enter the TOP500 list of supercomputers, currently ranking fourth. However, the performance of Fuyue Next will reach zettaFLOPS, which is equivalent to 100000 floating-point operations per second (10 ^ 21).
In contrast, the fastest supercomputer currently available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, Frontier, can achieve 1.206 exaFLOPS or 120.6 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The performance of Fuyue Next will be about 1000 times higher than Frontier. At present, this is only a theoretical imagination. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is leading the project and preparing to invest over 750 million US dollars, so it is possible to achieve it.
In the first year, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will invest approximately 29 million US dollars, but the investment amount will increase as development progresses in the coming years. The project is expected to be completed by 2030, at which point Fuyue Next may become the first supercomputer to achieve zettaFLOPS performance.
However, as Oracle recently revealed, OCI Supercluster has the potential to become the first supercomputer to achieve this feat, and it will be faster with a performance of up to 2.4 zettaFLOPS. To this end, Oracle will deploy 131072 upcoming NVIDIA Blackwell data center GPUs, which is almost three times the GPUs currently used by Frontier.
However, this requires an unprecedented amount of electricity supply to operate smoothly. The amount of electricity required for Fuyue Next is equivalent to the power generation of 21 nuclear power plants, which is also one of the biggest challenges facing Japan's efficient operation of supercomputers. Due to the use of components from the same company Fujitsu, "Fuyue Next" may be cross compatible with "Fuyue". With such a large project, Japan plans to make progress in multiple fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, astrophysics, energy research, medical research, and climate modeling.