Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has announced [PDF] plans to build a successor to the country's Fugaku supercomputer, which was once the world's most powerful HPC machine. The ministry wants RIKEN and Fujitsu to start developing the supercomputer next year, reports Nikkei.
A document by MEXT says this new supercomputer aims to achieve an unprecedented 50 ExaFLOPS of AI performance with Zetta-scale peak performance in mind to use AI for scientific purposes. The Zetta-class designation indicates a system capable of performing one sextillion floating-point operations per second. ZettaFLOPS is 1,000 times faster than ExaFLOPS, so if Japan manages to build such a system by 2030, as planned, it will likely again have the world's fastest supercomputer.
