March 2009
Fujitsu has won an order to provide a new supercomputer system to the Information Technology Center at Nagoya University.
The supercomputer will be designed as a hybrid computation server system comprised of three different computer architectures: the SPARC Enterprise M9000 UNIX server, the HX600 technical computing server, and the FX1 high-end technical computing server. The combined theoretical peak performance of these three systems is 60 teraflops.
The supercomputer will be a shared system used by Nagoya University as well as other research institutions and corporations, and will begin operation in two stages, the first in May 2009 and the second in October 2009.
The Information Technology Center at Nagoya University is an academic research facility available to the university faculty along with researchers from other research institutions and corporations throughout Japan.
Up until now, the center has been using Fujitsu's PrimePower HPC2500, which was deployed in March 2005 with Japan's largest memory capacity at the time.
In the past few years, however, two different types of needs have emerged: the need for more memory required for massive computations, and the need for a larger number of CPUs required for parallel computations.
To accommodate both sets of needs, the Information Technology Center decided to deploy a new hybrid system comprising three different kinds of architectures, enabling it to both boost computation capacity and broaden the reach of parallel computing to more users.
Katsuya Ishii, Professor, Information Technology Center, Nagoya University said, “We trust Fujitsu's experience in hardware and software development and look forward to their continued support to ensure the smooth functioning of the hybrid system. Through the new supercomputer system, the Information Technology Center hopes to make further contributions to the advancement of science and technology as well as to the education of young researchers."
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