Fujitsu to Build Taiwan's Supercomputer for National Center for HPC

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Taiwan Limited will build a new supercomputer system for Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing, National Applied Research Laboratories (NCHC) that will have the highest performance in the country at the time it commences operations, scheduled for May 2018.

The new system will serve as the core platform for research and development in Taiwan, fostering the development and growth of Taiwan's overall industries and economy.

The new PC cluster system is comprised of 715 servers, including a next-generation model of the Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY, and brings together the most advanced high-performance computing technologies, such as the use of the latest server CPU from Intel and fastest current GPU from NVIDIA.

The CPUs have a theoretical peak performance of over 2.13 petaflops(1), and the GPUs have a theoretical peak performance of over 1.35 petaflops, making the expected overall theoretical peak performance of the system over 3.48 petaflops.

Established in 1991, NCHC is Taiwan's only national-level supercomputer center.

From Taiwan's research institutions and private companies, as well as foreign researchers, over 1,000 people use the center, promoting international people-to-people exchanges and joint research. It thereby contributes to innovation and the advancement of Taiwan's scientific and technological capabilities, and in turn, to the development of Taiwan's economy.

The new system will give the center a research platform that can accommodate such new research fields as AI and big data, as well as accelerate the pace of further research.

Overview of the New Supercomputer System

The new PC cluster system is comprised of 715 servers, including a next generation model of Fujitsu's PRIMERGY.

Within this, 631 computation nodes use the Intel Xeon processor Scalable family (Codename: Skylake), and deliver a theoretical peak performance of over 2.13 petaflops. In addition, 64 of its accelerator nodes use the NVIDIA Tesla P100, a GPU from NVIDIA, for a theoretical peak performance of over 1.35 petaflops.

Each computation node is connected by Fujitsu's latest high-speed interconnect, Intel Omni-Path Architecture, and with the acceleration technology held by Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., delivers highly parallel processing performance.

Moreover, the system uses the Fujitsu's cutting-edge cooling technology, enabling energy conservation with an efficient cooling system.