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Presently, Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, remains the world\u2019s most powerful computer.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Japan plans to build the world\u2019s fastest-known supercomputer in a bid to arm the country\u2019s manufacturers with a platform for research that could help them develop and improve driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics.<\/p>\n

The ministry of economy, trade and industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on the previously unreported project, a budget breakdown shows, as part of a government policy to get back Japan\u2019s mojo in the world of technology. The country has lost its edge in many electronic fields amid intensifying competition from South Korea and China, home to the world\u2019s current best-performing machine.<\/p>\n

In a move that is expected to vault Japan to the top of the supercomputing heap, its engineers will be tasked with building a machine that can make 130 quadrillion calculations per second\u2014or 130 petaflops in scientific parlance\u2014as early as next year, sources involved in the project told Reuters<\/i>.<\/p>\n

At that speed, Japan\u2019s computer would be ahead of China\u2019s Sunway Taihulight that is capable of 93 petaflops. \u201cAs far as we know, there is nothing out there that is as fast,\u201d said Satoshi Sekiguchi, a director general at Japan\u2019s \u200eNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, where the computer will be built.<\/p>\n

The push to return to the vanguard comes at a time of growing nostalgia for the heyday of Japan\u2019s technological prowess, which has dwindled since China overtook it as the world\u2019s second-biggest economy.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for companies, bureaucrats and the political class to work more closely together so Japan can win in robotics, batteries, renewable energy and other new and growing markets.<\/p>\n

Deep learning<\/b><\/p>\n

In the area of supercomputing, Japan\u2019s aim is to use ultra-fast calculations to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence (AI), such as \u201cdeep learning\u201d technology that works off algorithms which mimic the human brain\u2019s neural pathways, to help computers perform new tasks and analyze scores of data.<\/p>\n

Recent achievements in this area have come from Google\u2019s DeepMind AI program, AlphaGo, which in March beat South Korean professional Lee Seedol in the ancient board game of Go.<\/p>\n

Applications include helping companies improve driverless vehicles by allowing them to analyze huge troves of visual traffic data, or it could help factories improve automation. China uses the Sunway Taihulight for weather forecasting, pharmaceutical research, industrial design, among other things.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s new supercomputer could help tap medical records to develop new services and applications, Sekiguchi said. The supercomputer will be made available for a fee to Japan\u2019s corporations, who now outsource data crunching to foreign firms such as Google and Microsoft, Sekiguchi and others involved in the project said.<\/p>\n

The new computer has been dubbed ABCI, an acronym for AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure. Bidding for the project has begun and will close on 8 December. Fujitsu Ltd, the builder of the fastest Japanese supercomputer to date\u2014the Oakforest-PACS, capable of 13.6 petaflops, declined to say if it would bid for the project. The company has, however, said it is keen to be involved in supercomputer development.<\/p>\n

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