Hacker and the Fugaku Supercomputer

The story

Hacker keeps his room perfectly neat and loves computers and prank calls. When he breaks into his mother's locked phone without asking, a lasso of computer code wraps around him and pulls him in.

He lands in a humming room full of giant computer racks inside Fugaku, a supercomputer in Japan, and when he can't resist pulling out one little piece, an alarm goes off.

The real place: Fugaku Supercomputer

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

1. 1Fugaku is a supercomputer in Kobe, Japan, and its name is another name for Mount Fuji.
2. 2In 2020, Fugaku was ranked the fastest supercomputer in the world.
3. 3Scientists used Fugaku to show how droplets from coughs and sneezes spread, to help people stay healthy.

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