Fujitsu to Build Taiwan's Top-Performing Supercomputer for the National Center for High-Performance Computing
2017年6月20日 - 12:37PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Taiwan Limited today announced that
they will build a new supercomputer system for Taiwan's National
Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research
Laboratories (NCHC) that will have the highest performance in the
country at the time it commences operations, scheduled for May
2018. The new system will serve as the core platform for research
and development in Taiwan, fostering the development and growth of
Taiwan's overall industries and economy.
The new PC cluster system is comprised of 715 servers, including a
next-generation model of the Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY, and brings
together the most advanced high-performance computing technologies,
such as the use of the latest server CPU from Intel and fastest
current GPU from NVIDIA. The CPUs have a theoretical peak
performance of over 2.13 petaflops(1), and the GPUs have a
theoretical peak performance of over 1.35 petaflops, making the
expected overall theoretical peak performance of the system over
3.48 petaflops.
Background to the Deployment of the New System
Established in 1991, NCHC is Taiwan's only national-level
supercomputer center.
From Taiwan's research institutions and private companies, as well
as foreign researchers, over 1,000 people use the center, promoting
international people-to-people exchanges and joint research. It
thereby contributes to innovation and the advancement of Taiwan's
scientific and technological capabilities, and in turn, to the
development of Taiwan's economy.
The new system will give the center a research platform that can
accommodate such new research fields as AI and big data, as well as
accelerate the pace of further research.
Overview of the New Supercomputer System
The new PC cluster system is comprised of 715 servers, including a
next generation model of Fujitsu's PRIMERGY. Within this, 631
computation nodes use the Intel Xeon processor Scalable family
(Codename: Skylake), and deliver a theoretical peak performance of
over 2.13 petaflops. In addition, 64 of its accelerator nodes use
the NVIDIA Tesla P100, a GPU from NVIDIA, for a theoretical peak
performance of over 1.35 petaflops. Each computation node is
connected by Fujitsu's latest high-speed interconnect(2), Intel
Omni-Path Architecture, and with the acceleration technology held
by Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., delivers highly
parallel processing performance.
Moreover, the system uses the Fujitsu's cutting-edge cooling
technology(3), enabling energy conservation with an efficient
cooling system.
(1) Petaflops
Short for peta floating point operations per second. Peta is an SI
prefix indicating one quadrillion, or 10 to the power of 15, so
this indicates performance of one quadrillion floating point
operations per second.
(2) Interconnect
The high-speed network connecting computation nodes.
(3) Cooling technology
This technique allows for cooling with higher-temperature water
than that of a conventional water cooling system, thus reducing the
load on the hardware that provides cooled water. Furthermore, the
heat radiated from the heated cooling water can be reused to
further improve the system's energy efficiency.
About Fujitsu Ltd
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication
technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology
products, solutions, and services. Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu
people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our
experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with
our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated
revenues of 4.5 trillion yen (US$40 billion) for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2017. For more information, please see
http://www.fujitsu.com.
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