| Sumario: | The article discusses the plans of Japan to build a supercomputer. The sting of losing the top spot as makers of the world's fastest supercomputer to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) in 2004 has not deterred Japan from making plans to gain that position again. Japan, in fact, plans to start building a supercomputer next year that will operate 73 times faster than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which currently holds the title of world's fastest. Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, 73 times faster than Blue Gene's current speed of 136.8 teraflops. The total cost of the project could be $714 million to $893 million. Assuming government funding is available, Japanese officials hope to complete the system in 2010.
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