Fujitsu Installs HPC Raijin at Australian National University

Fujitsu Ltd announced the launch of Raijin, a 1.2 petaflop supercomputer, at
the National Computational Infrastructure, or
NCI, computing center at the Australian
National University, or ANU.

With peak performance speeds of 1.2 petaflops, the new computer has the power of 56,000 computers
working in parallel, and the disk storage equivalent of 20,000 computers.

Professor Lindsay Botten, director of the NCI, said: "Advanced computational methods form an increasingly essential component
of high-impact research, in many cases underpinning discoveries that cannot be
achieved by other means, as well as the platform with which to sustain
innovation at an internationally competitive level. NCI welcomes the
opportunity to continue to build a substantive collaborative relationship with
Fujitsu, the peak system vendor, with a focus particularly on the optimization
of Australia’s primary modeling suite."

Mike Foster, CEO, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, said: "We are proud to have delivered Australia’s
most powerful computer to the NCI and now look forward to seeing Raijin
underpin the NCI’s role in facilitating breakthrough research in Australia and
internationally."

Statistics:

• Fujitsu Primergy x86 HPC technology is based on commodity hardware, which
  delivers improved price/performance; access to a greater range of ISV
  applications; and simplified the migration process from existing x86
  applications.
• Processor cores of 57,472 (Intel
  Xeon Sandy Bridge, 2.6 GHz); main memory of 160TBs; disk storage of 10PBs;
  peak performance of 1,195 teraflops; and available resource of 503M core hours per
  annum.
• Raijin is capable of peak performance speeds of 1.2 petaflops – 1,200,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.
• The installation of Raijin was undertaken by Fujitsu’s combined
  supercomputing expertise from Australia and Japan with support from Fujitsu
  Australia engineering teams and project partners.
• The NCI is supported by a $50 million grant under the Australian Government’s
  Super Science Initiative. Its operation is sustained through co-investment by a
  number of partner organizations including the ANU, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
  Organisation (CSIRO), the Bureau of
  Meteorology (BoM), Geoscience Australia
  and other research-intensive universities supported by the Australian Research Council. Researcher
  access to NCI facilities and services is also supported by the ARC and a number
  of Australia’s research intensive universities.