On March 14, Fujitsu Limited announced that it had received an order for a supercomputer system from the Computing and Communications Center at Kyushu University in Japan. The center is one of seven national supercomputer centers in a consortium of universities. The Kyushu supercomputer will be the most powerful in the consortium. 

The Computing and Communications Center offers advanced computing services for computational science, including fluid analysis and molecular science, to on and off-campus researchers. The new system will be capable of 31.5 teraflops (a teraflop is one trillion floating-point operations per second), making it the most powerful supercomputer among the seven centers. The new supercomputer will help meet the growing demand for scientific and technical computing at academic and research institutions. 

The new supercomputing system will be a hybrid consisting of two cluster systems. A large symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) cluster of 32 Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 mission-critical IA servers, along with a cluster of 384 Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S3 industry standard servers, will be complemented by a single PRIMEQUEST 580 acting as a file-management server. 

To learn more about this powerful new system, read the entire Fujitsu press release here.