Alfa Laval assists the world’s fastest super-computer in the fight against COVID-19

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has supplied its newly developed heat exchangers for the advanced cooling system of the world’s fastest supercomputer; the Japanese ‘Fugaku’. Due to its speed of 415 quadrillion computations per second, the computer is used in research for remedies against COVID-19.According to the Top500 list, compiled by researchers in the United States and Germany the most powerful computer is the Japanese supercomputer ‘Fugaku’ at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe. Developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu,