Japanese supercomputer beats US and China, ranked world's fastest

Japanese supercomputer 'Fugaku', developed by Fujitsu and Riken research institute, has been ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer in an independent bi-annual survey by the TOP500 project. The ARM-based room-sized supercomputer, being used to fight COVID-19, carried out 2.8 times more calculations per second than IBM's 'Summit' in the US. Fugaku's peak performance is over 1,000 petaflops.