The supercomputer Fugaku takes first place in HPCG, demonstrating the world's top-level performance overall as an HPC infrastructure for realizing Society 5.0

The supercomputer Fugaku ^[1], which was co-developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu) and started its shared use in March 2021, was ranked No. 1 in the world for the tenth consecutive term in HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradient), the international ranking of the processing speed of the conjugate gradient method ^[2], which is commonly used in actual applications such as industrial use.

In the TOP500, El Capitan (USA) took first place and Fugaku placed sixth. In the HPL-MxP (formerly known as HPL-AI) performance benchmark for single-precision and half-precision arithmetic processing, which is mainly used in deep learning in artificial intelligence (AI), Aurora (USA) placed first and Fugaku took fourth.

These rankings will be announced on November 19, EST (November 20, JST) at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24), currently being held at the Atlanta World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and online.

Fugaku's tenth consecutive term first-place ranking in the HPCG, sixth place in the TOP500, and fourth place in the HPL-MxP indicate the continuation of Fugaku's world-class overall performance, and that Fugaku can fully demonstrate its role as an HPC infrastructure for accelerating the development of technologies for solving social issues through simulation, developing AI, and distributing and processing information in Society 5.0 ^[3], which aims to realize a super-smart society that creates new value.