Fujitsu will integrate in the hybrid supercomputer three architecture

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Fujitsu Limited Company has received an order to build a new supercomputer to a Japanese university.

A feature of a supercomputer will be a hybrid structure that includes three different architectures: UNIX-Server SPARC Enterprise M9000, a server for technical computing HX600 high-performance server and the FX1. The total theoretical peak performance of all three systems is 60 teraflop (trillion floating-point operations per second).

The first system is a UNIX-Server SPARC Enterprise M9000, a three-node (96 processors, 384 cores, 3 TB of memory). The system peak performance is 3.84 teraflop successor model PRIMEPOWER HPC2500. It uses Quad-core SPARC64 VII, developed by Fujitsu.

The second system - a distributed Linux-server HX600 (160 nodes, 640 CPUs, 2560 cores, 10 TB of RAM). A cluster of general-purpose peak performance is 25.6 teraflopa x86-compatible architecture and is designed for a wide range of tasks.

The third component of the supercomputer is a high-performance distributed UNIX-server FX1 (768 nodes, 768 processors, the kernel 3072, 24 TB of RAM). This server provides half of the theoretical performance supercomputer - 30.72 teraflop. A feature of FX1 company calls using a set of system logic with a large-capacity memory subsystem that is optimized to work with processors, SPARC64 VII.

To merge three disparate systems into one, the company intends to use the Fujitsu Parallelnavi HPC, HPC Portal and Management Portal. Disk Subsystem supercomputer will consist of an array ETERNUS2000 volume of 1.15 SDS.

Access to a computer will have the research institutions and commercial companies. Writing a supercomputer in order to be implemented in two phases: the first will be completed in May this year, and the second - in October.

Recall, first place in the TOP500 list now belongs to the hybrid system - it took a supercomputer Roadrunner, built on AMD Opteron processors and the IBM PowerXCell.

Source: www.fujitsu.com