Fujitsu today announced it has delivered a supercomputer to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in Tokyo for forecasting “linear rainbands,” which can trigger heavy rain causing landslides and flooding. The JMA said the system will start operations tomorrow. The system is based on Arm-based FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000 hardware, which has the same A64FX CPU […]
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Fujitsu, Riken Partner to Deliver Quantum Computing in Japan Next Year
August 29, 2022 by
Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken research institution will team to deliver Japan-made quantum computing starting next April, according to an article on the Nikkei Asia news site. The story states that Fujitsu’s quantum system is expected to have 64 qubits, more than the 53 qubits in Google’s 2019 machine and second to IBM’s 127 qubits developed in 2021, Nikkei reported, adding that “Fujitsu says it hopes to produce a machine that has more than 1,000 qubits after April 2026.”
Fujitsu Launches Computing as a Service for HPC and AI
April 6, 2022 by
Tokyo, April 6, 2022 — Fujitsu today announced “Fujitsu Computing as a Service” (CaaS) offering computing resources such as Fujitsu’s quantum-inspired Digital Annealer technology; AI and machine learning software applications; and technology used in the Arm-based “Fugaku,” the world’s top-ranked supercomputer. Fujitsu said it began preorders today for for Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC, which offers […]
Appentra and Fujitsu in HPC Collaboration
October 15, 2021 by
A Coruña, Spain – Oct. 14, 2021 — Fujitsu and Appentra, maker of Parallelware Analyzer to boost the performance of C/C++ code, and Fujitsu have announced a framework collaboration agreement in which both companies will allow transferring to the supercomputing market in Spain a joint value proposition in the optimization of applications for execution in […]
Fujitsu Demonstrates Industrial Simulations on Fugaku
June 23, 2021 by
Tokyo, June 23, 2021 — Fujitsu Limited successfully leveraged on the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, to demonstrate the feasibility of high performance, large-scale, very high-definition analyses with commercial applications widely used in the industrial field for simulations including fluid dynamics. The trials were conducted in collaboration with a number of application vendors between November 2020 and […]
XTREME-D Announces Technical Alliance with Fujitsu
June 11, 2021 by
Palo Alto, California, June 10, 2021 – Japanese HPC Cloud company XTREME-D today announced the formation of a technical alliance with Fujitsu Limited to conduct verification tests of Fujitsu’s PRIMEHPC FX700 on XTREME-D’s high-speed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment. The two companies are planning a series of joint activities through this alliance, starting with […]
Xilinx in 5G Partnership with Fujitsu
February 4, 2021 by
FPGA chip maker Xilinx, whose acquisition by AMD was announced last October, and Fujitsu, developer along with Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science of Fugaku, the world’s no. 1 supercomputer, today announced plans to collaborate on 5G development in the U.S. Xilinx said it is supplying its UltraScale+ technology to Fujitsu for its O-RAN 5G […]
Fujitsu to Ship 649 TFLOPS System with Fugaku HPC Technology to Canon for ‘No-prototype’ Product Development
September 23, 2020 by
Technology from the world’s No. 1 supercomputer, Fugaku, located at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, is making its way into the commercial sphere. Fujitsu Ltd. today announced that Canon, Inc., has ordered a Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX1000 unit, expected to achieve theoretical computational performance of 648.8 teraflops (TFLOPS). Intended to support Canon’s “no-prototype” […]
Arm-Powered Fujitsu Supercomputer to fuel Aerospace Research at JAXA in Japan
April 22, 2020 by
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for a supercomputer system from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Powered by the Arm-based A64FX processor, the system will contribute in improving the international competitiveness of aerospace research, as it will be widely used as the basis for JAXA’s high performance computing. “Scheduled to start operation in October 2020, the new computing system for large-scale numerical simulation, composed of Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000, is expected to have a theoretical computational performance of 19.4 petaflops, which is approximately 5.5 times that of the current system.”
PolarisQB and Fujitsu Launch Drug Discovery Platform
March 24, 2020 by
Polarisqb has partnered with Fujitsu to create a ground-breaking drug discovery platform combining quantum-inspired technology, machine learning, hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics simulations (QM/MM). This new platform enables significantly faster, more cost-effective discovery of novel lead molecules to develop new drugs. Polarisqb and Fujitsu have begun a drug discovery project targeting Dengue Fever which has no approved treatments.
