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Why Fugaku, Japan's fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

Japan's Mount Fuji is famous for its height and width but it's also reachable by novice hikers without lots of time on their hands due to the nation’s efforts to make it accessible. Now, the researchers behind one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Fugaku, which is another name for Mt. Fuji, are trying to make the supercomputer just as accessible on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Read this post to learn more.

While Mount Fuji in Japan is famous for its height and width, it is also reachable by novice hikers without lots of time on their hands due to the nation’s efforts to make it accessible. “We’ve injected this supercomputing environment directly into the cloud to extend applications and have much larger impact than in a single machine.” Notably, Virtual Fugaku on AWS proved to be twice as fast as the on-premises counterpart in complex calculations and simulations during proofs of concept (POCs) conducted in 2023.

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