[ExI] Japan now has the most powerful computer in the world

[John Clark]

Yesterday the new supercomputer rankings were released and for the first
time Japan has the fastest computer on earth, it's called "Fugaku" and it's
2.8 times faster than the previous champion, the "Summit" supercomputer in
the USA. It's also the first time ever that the same computer was ranked
number one on four different test workloads, including double precision and
reduced precision calculations that are used for many Machine Learning and
AI applications.

TOP500 LIST - JUNE 2020 <https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2020/06/>

In a related story, today the President of the USA signed an executive
order that would block US computer companies from bringing foreign computer
engineers and scientists into the country so they can work for them.

John K Clark
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