OREANDA-NEWS. October 25, 2011. Fujitsu today announced that it has received a contract from the Kamioka Observatory, which is part of the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, to build an experiment-analysis system for the Kamioka Observatory, which uses neutrino(1) observations to understand the origin of the universe.

The experiment-analysis system will be used to accumulate and analyze the prodigious amount of data collected by the tens of thousands of photomultipliers that make up the Super-Kamiokande detector. The new system, along with the detector itself, will form the pillar supporting the research facility.

The new system will primarily be comprised of a x86 cluster system consisting of 142 PRIMERGY BX922 S2 blade servers, ETERNUS DX80 S2 disk storage systems, and a high-speed distributed file system that employs the FEFS scalable file system software. The overall system's calculation performance will achieve a score of 33,000 on SPECint_rate 2006 benchmarking(2), roughly double the performance(3) of the system it will replace, with 4.4 times the disk capacity, 7 times the data-transfer speed, and 22% lower power consumption(4).

Fujitsu is proud to have the opportunity to help enhance the efficiency of the Kamioka Observatory's neutrino observations, and to contribute to a greater understanding of the nature of neutrinos and the origins of the universe itself.

The new experiment-analysis system is scheduled to go online in March 2012.