Japan's K supercomputer, once the world's fastest, to retire in August
K, the first supercomputer to achieve a computing speed of over 10 quadrillion computations per second is set to end operations after seven years, to give way to a cutting-edge successor.
Ex-exec of Japanese supercomputer venture gets suspended prison term
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday issued a suspended prison term to a former executive of a venture company for fraud involving around ¥653 million ($5.8 million) in government subsidies related to the company's supercomputer development project. Daisuke Suzuki, 48, was sentenced to three years ...
Chief of firm behind world's fourth-fastest supercomputer arrested in Tokyo for alleged fraud
Prosecutors allege that the firm’s president and another official illegally received subsidies from a government institution after padding expenses.
The K supercomputer in Kobe has been kept busy since it went into full-scale operation in September last year, reflecting the high expectations of its advanced simulation capacity. More than 100 projects using the supercomputer are currently under way. While K is preferentially assigned to ...
Drugs of the future will be computer-designed
The moment Hideaki Fujitani unlocks the heavy door and enters the room, the buzzing noise — which sounded like a simple hum from the outside — gets much louder. "The noise is from the cooling fans," he shouts as he tries to tidy up his ...
Following discussions in the wake of the March 11 quake and tsunami, an experts' panel of the Central Disaster Management Council submitted its final report to post-disaster reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano in late September. The report called on the central and local governments to ...
Who's afraid of a little class warfare?
A week ago Monday, defending his plan to raise taxes on the rich to pay for job creation, President Barack Obama said: "This is not class warfare, it's math." No, Mr. President, this is class warfare. Corporate interests and the rich started it and, right ...
The launch of the iPad in Japan on May 28 was a highly anticipated event, greeted by extensive media attention and long lines of customers eager to buy Apple's latest digital gadget. While Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader have both been lauded as next-generation ...
