Fujitsu released its latest supercomputer, the PrimeHPC FX10, was announced. Research institutions can use these calculations with a maximum of 23,2 petaflop, which the world’s fastest computer would be.
The new supercomputer is the current number one, the so-called K Computer by Fujitsu was developed, of his throne. The K Computer was introduced with a performance level of more than 8 petaflop, but broke through the Top 500 list in June of all the 10pflops-border. The PrimeHPC FX10 should be that performance is largely double: the most comprehensive configuration must 23,2 pflops. Fujitsu will the PrimeHPC from January 2012, to deliver.
The heaviest configuration, good for a peak performance 23.2 pflops, uses 98304 Ultrasparc IXfx processors, each with sixteen cores on board. The sixteen cores of the Sparcs tapping 1,848 GHz and have 32 or 64GB of memory. Each processor is good for about 236,5 gflops and comes with 96 pieces in a rack to be found: in total there is the PrimeHPC FX10 1024 racks. The computer comprises a total of 6,291 petabyte of memory, and the interconnects are by Fujitsu’s “Tofu” with ten times the uni-directional 5GB/s bandwidth is formed.
The smallest configuration consists of only 384 nodes, which together of 90.8 tflops to deliver and about 12TB of memory. The cooling of the racks is provided by a combination of air and water cooling. The supercomputers, Fujitsu expects the next three years about fifty configurations to sell, with Fujitsu’s Technical Computing Suite, HPC-software and its ‘distributed filesystem’, FEFS, delivered.
