TOKYO--Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has received an order for a supercomputer system from the Computing and Communications Center at Kyushu University in Japan. The center is one of seven national supercomputer centers in a consortium of universities. It offers advanced computing services for computational science, including fluid analysis and molecular science, to on and off-campus researchers.

The new system will be capable of 31.5 teraflops, making it the most powerful supercomputer among the seven centers, and help meet the growing demand for scientific and technical computing at academic and research institutions.

The new supercomputing system will be a hybrid consisting of two cluster systems. A large symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) cluster of 32 Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 mission-critical IA servers, along with a cluster of 384 Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S3 industry standard servers, will be complemented by a single PRIMEQUEST 580 acting as a file-management server.

The system will run Fujitsu Parallelnavi HPC software, enabling easy operation without users having to be aware of the underlying complex hardware mix. Moreover, the system will feature the Fujitsu HPC solution. This improves usability by providing a unified monitoring environment for everything from job execution to simulations, and a web interface for managing and supervising the hybrid computing system. The new system is scheduled to become operational in June of 2007.