{"id":377177,"date":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:12","slug":"fugaku-next-will-be-japans-first-zetta-class-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377177\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugaku NEXT will be Japan&#8217;s first zetta-class supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-153.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhotcyber.com\/post\/author\/redazione\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redazione RHC<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a027 August 2025 08:14<\/b><\/p>\n<p>RIKEN, Fujitsu, and Nvidia are collaborating on the development of <strong>FugakuNEXT<\/strong>, Japan\u2019s new flagship supercomputer, scheduled to become operational at the RIKEN campus in Kobe around 2030.<\/p>\n<p>With an estimated budget of approximately <strong>110 billion yen<\/strong> (approximately $740 million), FugakuNEXT is the successor to the current <strong>Fugaku<\/strong>, currently ranked seventh in the world\u2019s supercomputer rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is ambitious: <strong>to reach 600 exaFLOPS (EFLOPS) of precision. FP8<\/strong>, a milestone that would make it the world\u2019s first <strong>zetta-class (10\u00b2\u00b9)<\/strong> supercomputer. Compared to Fugaku, the new system will offer an overall performance improvement of more than <strong>100x<\/strong>, thanks to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a hardware increase of approximately <strong>5x<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>software optimizations ranging from <strong>10x to 20x<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this while maintaining energy efficiency unchanged, with an estimated consumption of <strong>40 MW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Architecture and key technologies<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Fujitsu MONAKA-X CPU<\/strong>: successor to the MONAKA CPU, currently in development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nvidia GPU accelerators<\/strong>: with <strong>NVLink Fusion<\/strong> interconnect for high-bandwidth communication between CPU and GPU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory and Advanced connectivity: designed to build a hybrid <strong>AI-HPC<\/strong> platform, capable of combining scientific simulation and artificial intelligence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A supercomputer at the service of science<\/p>\n<p>FugakuNEXT will be based on the <strong>\u201cAI for Science\u201d<\/strong> platform, designed to automate and accelerate complex research processes. Among the main applications:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>seismic and natural disaster simulations<\/li>\n<li>climate and environmental modeling<\/li>\n<li>optimization of industrial production<\/li>\n<li>multidisciplinary AI-based research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project represents not only a technological advancement, but also a strategic investment in <strong>Japan\u2019s semiconductor sovereignty<\/strong>, with a strong commitment to international collaboration, particularly with the <strong>U.S. Department of Energy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Development Roadmap<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2025<\/strong> \u2192 Completion of basic design<\/li>\n<li><strong>2026<\/strong> \u2192 Start Detailed design<\/li>\n<li><strong>2030<\/strong> \u2192 System commissioning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In parallel, <strong>\u201cVirtual Fugaku\u201d<\/strong> will be made available, a cloud environment that will allow developers to start working on the software in the early stages, with the possibility of integrating <strong>hybrid quantum computing (QC-HPC) capabilities in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RHC.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-right:20px\"\/><b>Redazione<\/b><br \/>The editorial team of Red Hot Cyber consists of a group of individuals and anonymous sources who actively collaborate to provide early information and news on cybersecurity and computing in general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhotcyber.com\/post\/author\/redazione\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lista degli articoli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Redazione RHC\u00a0:\u00a027 August 2025 08:14 RIKEN, Fujitsu, and Nvidia are collaborating on the development of FugakuNEXT, Japan\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-377177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115099836441009543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}