Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort

Japan's RIKEN scientific research institute and Fujitsu are working with America's Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Nvidia to build and operate next-gen compute infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), in line with President Trump's Genesis Mission.

RIKEN says the four organizations have agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop system software and applications for science and engineering purposes, and promote the use of AI for scientific research.

Areas where the group is expected to cooperate include future computing architectures, where they'll jointly define and prototype next-gen tech for typical HPC workloads such as modeling and simulation, but also the integration of AI into these workflows.

RIKEN claims the participants hope to develop a shared software ecosystem, in the form of an open and interoperable software stack to support AI-enabled scientific discoveries.

In addition, the organizations will team up to develop autonomous laboratory workflows to ...