For the first time in years, Japan has the fastest supercomputer in the world and it’s being used to research the spread and treatment of the novel coronavirus.

Yesterday, Top 500 released the updated list of the world's fastest supercomputers, and it revealed a rather worrying trend: Supercomputer performance is slowing down, rather than speeding up ...

The Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, is now ranked as the world’s fastest, its developers announced on June 22, 2020.

The latest ranking of the top 500 fastest supercomputers has seen little change since its last tabulation six months ago. Japan's Arm-powered Fugaku still dominates the Top500 list, and only one new ...

Japan is developing a new supercomputer that could be among the world's fastest computers when released in 2020.

After seven years in the works, the world's fastest supercomputer has officially been completed in Japan and is now available for researchers to start using, for projects ranging from fighting ...