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The temperature is determined with high precision by introducing a temperature-sensitive fluorescent probe into the cells by simple mixing (a cationic fluorescent polymeric thermometer, CFPT)” JSBBA lecture 2C01p05, March 28
In collaboration with NARO’s National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, the tea machine “Rich plus” was developed and will be introduced from April 2014. Hoshizaki Electric press release, March 28, 2014
The program, financed by MEXT and led by Dr Yutaka ISHIKAWA of RIKEN’s Advanced Institute for Computational Science, is planned to be finished by 2020 and have 100 times the performance of RIKEN’s K-Computer (1 exaflop = 1018 flops per sec) RIKEN news release, March 28, 2014