Partial Revision of the Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers


25 April 2005
The Committee for Drawing Up and
Promoting the Action Program

Decision of the 37th 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 31st meeting of the Committee for Drawing Up and Promoting the Action Program on 25 April 2000 (final revision)) partially, as outlined herein.

Partial Revision of the Procedures to Introduce Supercomputers

1.The theoretical peak ratings threshold of "100 billion floating point operations per second (GIGAFLOPS) and over" is to be raised to "1.5 trillion floating point operations per second (TERAFLOPS) and over."
2.The revisions will become effective on 1 May 2005.