The Government of Japan announced that he will revolutionize the world of the computer science of to five years with a supercomputer able to make calculations at a speed 76 times greater here than the Blue Gene/L of the United States, the machine faster than he exists at the moment. The benefits will be able to be seen in the medicine, astronomia and the study of climates, among other matters.

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, the fastest computer of the planet will work at ten a terminal velocity of petaflops, is to say to ten thousand trillions of operations of floating point per second.

These are operations that are used to make calculations numerical of faster form and in them the location of the point decimal is stored separately in a called unit explaining . Flop is a measurement of the yield of the computers and is equivalent to an operation of floating point per second.

At the moment, the fastest computer is the American Blue Gene/L, developed by IBM and the North American Government, and whom has 136.8 a terminal velocity of teraflops.

These hyperquick computers are necessary to simulate experiments that are almost impossible to carry out in the real life or which they require of too much time for his conclusion.

In the case of Japan and the east of Asia, its utility can be very great, since with such capacity and rapidity of analysis the possible trajectory of typhoons and tropical storms can be determined with great exactitude that annually cause to terrible destructions and human losses in the Western Pacific.

The Japanese Government does not want to scrimp in expenses to carry out between 2006 and 2010 east project, whose predicted cost could reach the 100,000 million yens (about 900 million dollars). The United States also glides to construct a supercomputer towards year 2010; according to the experts, this technological rivalry, as already it happened in the past, will allow if it is possible to advance plus the investigations and to advance towards higher levels of artificial intelligence.

Source: Bloogo Computers