With this development, it is said the new system has the potential to address societal challenges: from drug development, disaster prevention and mitigation, other measures for safe and secure society. The possibility can also extend up to cutting-edge research, development and manufacturing of new materials without the need to make prototypes. Companies as well can take advantage to increase their competitive edge.
About Peta-Flop
A petaflop is a measure of a computer’s processing speed and can be expressed as a quadrillion floating point operations per second.
What is FLOPS? (Floating-point operation) or FLOPS are floating-point operations per second. Floating-point is considered to be a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers.
1. Hardware
Node | Theoretical computational performance | 236.5GFLOPS |
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Processor | SPARC64™ IXfx (1.848GHz, 16 cores) × 1 | |
Memory capacity | 32GB, 64GB | |
Memory bandwidth | 85GB/s | |
Inter-node transfer rate | 5GB/s × 2 (bidirectional) / link | |
System | No. racks | 4 ~ 1,024 |
Nodes | 384 ~ 98,304 | |
Theoretical computational performance | 90.8 ~ 23,248TFLOPS | |
Total memory | 12 ~ 6,291TB | |
Interconnect | "Tofu" Interconnect | |
Cooling Method | Direct water cooling + air cooling (Optional: Exhaust cooling unit) |
2. Software (Source Fujitsu)
The new system is highly compatible with the "K computer" supercomputer, it is currently under the joint development between RIKEN and Fujitsu. The new system will be available worldwide and will start shipping on January 2012 (Source: Fujitsu).