The Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy will launch the Linux supercomputer

Silicon graph Corporation (New York Stock Exchange Code: SGI) today announced that the Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy (JAERI) will launch SGI (R) as its latest core computing system) altix (R) supercomputer helps develop leading energy systems.

Through a bid, Fujitsu (Fujitsu Limited) and SGI Japan will work together to provide the Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy with 2,048 Intel (R) Itanium (R) 2 processors, Linux (R) operating environment and the latest SGI (R) Altix (R) 3700 Bx2 model with over 13 gigabytes of storage capacity (the world's largest storage capacity. The system will be fully operational by the end of March 2005.

The Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy has been committed to introducing the highest standard of large-scale computers to meet the needs of scientific computing in nuclear energy research and development. In response to the rapid growth expected by large-scale simulation Research in the field of nuclear energy and nuclear fusion, the Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy will deploy Tokai Research Establishment in the East China Sea) integrate with the system of Naka Fusion Research Establishment (Naka Fusion Research Institute) (in Naka) and achieve processing capabilities of more than 10 times. The Japanese Institute of Atomic Energy is also expected to transfer a large amount of computing data such as large-scale simulation computing from the East China Sea Research Institute to Naka Fusion Research Establishment at a high speed, and to obtain efficient visualization capabilities when testing new systems.

The rapid sharing and acquisition of massive computing data generated by the Altix System in the East China Sea in the Naka system is also required.

SGI Japan will also provide the TP9300 disk system and the SGI (R) CXFS (TM) shared file system. The Donghai Institute and Naka Fusion Research Establishment (10 km apart) will be connected to a high-speed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to achieve joint access to all files from distant facilities.

In addition, a large-scale visualization system Silicon Graphics (R) Onyx4 (TM) UltimateVision (TM) will be installed at the Donghai Research Institute) install the Silicon Graphics Prism (TM) system with the latest graphic performance in Naka Fusion Research Establishment to create 3D visual effects through the data generated by the Altix system. (Edit: Summer)

From: China Light Industry Information Network