Revision of the Coverage of Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers

Decision of the 24th Meeting of the Committee for
Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program

The Government of Japan, has decided to revise the coverage of the "Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers" (the decision of the 13^th meeting of the Committee for Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program on 19 April 1990), and accordingly revise the "Measures Related to Japanese Public Sector Procurements of Computer Products and Services," (the decision of the 17^th meeting of the Committee for Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program on 20 January 1992), as outlined herein.

Revision of the Coverage of Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers

1. The theoretical peak ratings threshold set out in Section I(3) of the "Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers" (the decision of the 13^th meeting of the Committee for Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program on 19 April 1990) is to be revised, in order to reflect technological advances in supercomputer market, as follows:

   The theoretical peak ratings threshold of "300 million floating point operations per second (MFLOPS) and over" is to be raised to "5 billion floating point operations per second (GIGAFLOPS) and over."

2. Accordingly, the final sentence in Section I(C) of the "Measures related to Japanese Public Sector Procurements of Computer Products and Services," (the decision of the 17^th meeting of the Committee for Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program on 20 January 1992) is to be amended to read as follows:

   "Supercomputer procurements will continue to be covered by the '1990 Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers,' including any amendments thereto, and will not be covered by the Measures."

3. The revisions of 1 and 2 above will become effective on 1 April 1995.