Friday, July 17, 2009

Fujitsu Alone to Build Japanese NextGen HPC

Fujitsu Ltd. alone will build Japan's next-generation supercomputer after its two partners withdrew from a government-sponsored project to develop the computer for the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Fujitsu and the institute said Friday.

The independent administrative institution known as RIKEN has decided to employ Fujitsu's scalar processing architecture for the supercomputer as NEC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) have withdrawn from an earlier attempt to combine their vector architecture with the Fujitsu system, they said.

As originally planned, Fujitsu and RIKEN said they will complete the supercomputer at a facility in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, by fiscal 2012 ending in March 2013 under the 115.4 billion yen project. The total cost is expected to top the planned level.

The supercomputer is designed to use a 128-gigaflop central processing unit, the world's fastest at present, to achieve the world's highest performance of 10 petaflops.


fyi.

Note. Scalar, not vector. THey may have a faux vector architecture though.

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