Today Fujitsu announced that it has completed the design of Post-K supercomputer for deployment at RIKEN in Japan. While full-production of the full machine is not scheduled until 2021-2022, Fujitsu disclosed plans to productize the Post-K technologies and begin global sales in the second half of fiscal 2019. “Reaching the production milestone marks a significant achievement for Post-K and we are excited to see the potential for broader deployment of Arm-based Fujitsu technologies in support of HPC and AI applications.”
Arm A64fx and Post-K: A Game-Changing CPU & Supercomputer
April 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. “Post-K is the flagship next generation national supercomputer being developed by Riken and Fujitsu in collaboration. Post-K will have hyperscale class resource in one exascale machine, with well more than 100,000 nodes of sever-class A64fx many-core Arm CPUs, realized through extensive co-design process involving the entire Japanese HPC community.”
Choice Comes to HPC: A Year in Processor Development
January 27, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that a whole new set of processor choices could shake up high performance computing. “While Intel is undoubtedly the king of the hill when it comes to HPC processors – with more than 90 per cent of the Top500 using Intel-based technologies – the advances made by other companies, such as AMD, the re-introduction of IBM and the maturing Arm ecosystem are all factors that mean that Intel faces stiffer competition than it has for a decade.”
Video: Fujitsu Post-K Supercomputer to feature World’s Fastest Arm Processor
January 2, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In this video, Nicolas Charbonnier from ArmDevices.net interviews Fujitsu engineers working on the Post-K supercomputer in Japan. Based on the Arm-based A64FX from Fujitsu, the Post-K supercomputer will likely be the fastest system in the world when in debuts in 2021. ‘Fujitsu A64FX is the new fastest Arm processor in the world, built on 7nm it has 2.7 TFLOPS performance per chip suitable for high-end HPC and AI, they aim to create with it the world’s fastest supercomputer with it by 2021.”
Interview: Brent Gorda on his New Role as Head of ARM HPC
September 12, 2018 by 1 Comment
Former Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda has a new role as Senior Director for the HPC business at Arm. We caught up with Brent to learn more about the company’s plans to grow their business in the Datacenter, HPC space, and on to Exascale. “Arm partners ship over 20 billion cores a year(!) and our company is well-known for being the core IP in many designs at the edge. The trend toward the datacenter with Arm is clear, it’s an opportunity for the HPC market to take advantage of the considerable boost in performance via SVE and the Arm roadmap.”
Radio Free HPC Looks at Hot Chips for 2018
August 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest developments in processor technology coming out of the recent Hot Chips conference. “The HOT CHIPS conference typically attracts more than 500 attendees from all over the world. It provides an opportunity for chip designers, computer architects, system engineers, press and analysts, as well as attendees from national laboratories and academia to mix, mingle and see presentations on the latest technologies and products.”
Fujitsu to Showcase Post-K Supercomputer CPU Prototype at ISC 2018
June 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Fujitsu unveiled details about their ARM-powered Post K exascale supercomputer, which is planned for deployment at RIKEN in Japan sometime in 2021. Fujitsu has now completed the prototype CPU chip for the machine, which may be the fastest ever commencing functionality field trials. “The Post K processor will likely become the most powerful general-purpose CPU ever for HPC and AI,” said Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN on his blog this week.
Fujitsu to build 4 Petaflop Supercomputer for Hokkaido University
May 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order from the Information Initiative Center of Hokkaido University for an interdisciplinary, large-scale computing system with a theoretical peak performance of 4.0 petaflops, consisting of a supercomputer system and a cloud system. “The deployment of this system, which delivers the dramatically improved peak performance of 4 petaflops, will meet the expectations of universities and research institutions, as well as private sector researchers, throughout Japan, while promoting the further acceleration of academic research in Japan.”
Radio Free HPC Reviews the Results from the ASC 2018 Student Cluster Competition
May 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC 2018 Student Cluster Competition.
“The ASC 2018 Student Supercomputer Challenge finalist were announced on March 20, 2018. The 20 finalists will design and build supercomputers up to 3,000 Watts, solve exceptionally difficult problems in AI reading comprehension, perform RELION optimization as a core application of the Nobel winning cryo-electron microscopy, and utilize CFL3D, HPL, and HPCG.”
Asetek Receives Order For New HPC Cluster From Fujitsu
May 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Asetek announced an order from Fujitsu, an established global data center OEM, for a new High Performance Computing system at a currently undisclosed location in Japan. This major installation will be implemented using Asetek’s RackCDU liquid cooling solution throughout the cluster which includes 1300 Direct-to-Chip (D2C) coolers for the cluster’s compute nodes. “We are pleased to see the continuing success of Fujitsu using Asetek’s technology in large HPC clusters around the world,” said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek.
