Fujitsu and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) have announced an R&D partnership to jointly develop advanced applications technologies for the next generation of scientific computing known as petascale computing.
Petascale computing, using sophisticated supercomputers able to undertake a quadrillion (10^15) calculations per second, will provide unprecedented computing capability to solve highly complex and challenging scientific and engineering problems. To enable the effective use of the immense compute power of petascale supercomputers, a new set of compatible software applications will need to be built.
A joint team of 20 IHPC and Fujitsu researchers will develop scalable algorithms for petascale computing in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and materials science. To do so, the team will harness the compute power of Fujitsu supercomputer system comprising a cluster of Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 blade servers with a peak performance of over 35 teraflops (TFlops) and 91.8 percent efficiency with LINPACK program . This is the first installation of a Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900-based supercomputer outside of Japan. This system, housed at A*STAR’s Computational Resource Centre (A*CRC) at Fusionopolis, will be among the top tier of supercomputer sites in the world and the most powerful in Southeast Asia.
The R&D in petascale computing applications will enable a very high degree of fidelity and accuracy, in the study of highly complex real and engineering systems. This know-how will lead to innovative and cutting-edge solutions for advanced applications in diverse areas such as chemicals to infocommunications and electronics. It can also address a wider range of large-scale scenarios from weather modelling to studies on infectious diseases.
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