OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu today announced that it has received an order for a many-core large-scale supercomputer system from the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba. The system will be deployed to the Joint Center for Advanced High-Performance Computing (JCAHPC), which the two universities jointly operate.

The new supercomputer will be an x86 cluster system consisting of 8,208 of the latest FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY x86 servers. These will run on the next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors (Intel development code name: Knights Landing), and achieve a theoretical aggregate performance of 25 petaflops.

The system is due to be completely operational starting December 2016, when it is expected to be Japan's highest-performance supercomputer.

The University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba, along with Kyoto University, wrote their supercomputer system requirements as a common specification, the T2K Open Supercomputer, based on cutting-edge open technologies. Each university deployed its own x86 clusters based on the specification. In the case of the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba, their respective systems operated from June 2008 to February 2014 (the University of Tsukuba) and March 2014 (the University of Tokyo).

In researching successor systems, the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba established JCAHPC as Japan's first organization where universities would collaborate to build and operate a single supercomputer system. The universities made the decision to deploy Fujitsu's new supercomputer to this facility as their primary system.