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Recent examples (in descending order by date of operation)
Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Extension [PRIMERGY BX900]
| Date operation commenced |
May 2011 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
45 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Fluid dynamics, materials science, etc |
| Purpose |
Development of leading edge science and technology |
| Features |
- Example of first overseas supercomputer system based on "PRIMERGY BX900" blade servers
- LINPACK execution efficiency of 91.1%, the fastest in South-East Asia
- "PRIMERGY BX900" x 450 nodes
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The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo
| Date operation commenced |
August 2010 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
38.3 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Development of drugs to treat cancer relapse and metastasis |
| Purpose |
Performing simulations to design genome-based antibody drugs that treat the relapse and metastasis of cancer |
| Features |
- 300 PRIMERGY BX922 S2 blade server nodes
- Intel Xeon X5650 processors: allowing for a total of 600 CPUs
- Enables data to be transferred at 4GB/s, while allowing for high-speed parallel calculations
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Japan Atomic Energy Agency
| Date operation commenced |
March 2010 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
200 teraflops (note 1) (hereinafter TFLOPS) |
| Fields of use |
Research and development in the field of nuclear energy, including atomic fusion simulations |
| Purpose |
Ensure safe nuclear powered energy |
| Features |
- LINPACK execution performance of 186.1 TFLOPS
- Calculation server system with three different applications
- "PRIMERGY BX900" 2,134 nodes (4,286 CPUs, 17,072 cores)
- "FX1" 300 nodes
- "SPARC Enterprise M9000" 1 node
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Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research
| Date operation commenced |
January 2010 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
35 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Fluid dynamics, materials science, etc |
| Purpose |
Development of leading edge science and technology |
| Features |
- Example of first overseas supercomputer system based on "PRIMERGY BX900" blade servers
- LINPACK execution efficiency of 91.8%, the fastest in South-East Asia
- "PRIMERGY BX900" x 378 nodes
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The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
| Date operation commenced |
January 2010 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
37.7 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Research and development of new statistical mathematical methods such as statistical modelling, large-scale data analysis, data assimilation (next-generation simulations) |
| Purpose |
Scientific development focusing on data utilizing statistical mathematics |
| Features |
- Distributed memory supercomputer system (theoretical peak performance: 33.7 TFLOPS）
- Shared memory supercomputer system (theoretical peak performance: 4 TFLOPS)
- 35 x "ETERNUS DX80" large-scale shared storage systems
- Highly operable implementation using the "Parallelnavi" Series of HPC middleware
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RIKEN
| Date operation commenced |
August 2009 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
108 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Wide range of fields including physics, engineering, chemistry, neuroscience, and life sciences |
| Purpose |
Science and technology research and development |
| Features |
- LINPACK execution performance of 97.94 TFLOPS on PC cluster system
- Calculation server system with three different applications (super-parallel PC cluster, large capacity memory computers, multipurpose PC cluster)
- "PRIMERGY RX200 S5", 1,024 units (2,048 CPUs, 8,192 cores)
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
| Date operation commenced |
April 2009 |
| Total theoretical peak performance |
135 TFLOPS |
| Fields of use |
Research and development in the field of aerospace |
| Purpose |
Fluid simulations, etc. Mainly focused on aviation |
| Features |
- LINPACK execution performance of 110.6 TFLOPS with 91.19% execution efficiency
- "FX1" 3,392 nodes
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Footnotes
(note1) TFLOPS :
Tera Floating point number Operations Per Second
