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**Mugflefusysef** · 01-19-2010, 05:39 PM

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Jan 19, 2010

Supercomputer software project

FUJITSU Ltd, Japan's biggest computer-services provider, and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, or A*STAR, will jointly develop software for a faster generation of supercomputers, reports Bloomberg news. The project will produce applications for the so-called petascale generation of supercomputers, machines that can perform a thousand trillion calculations per second, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. A team of 20 researchers from Fujitsu and A*Star's Institute of High Performance Computing will use the Japanese server maker's hardware to develop applications for research in chemicals, electronics, weather modeling and study of infectious diseases, said the statement.

The project may help the Tokyo-based company catch up with Cray Inc and International Business Machines Corp in developing computers that can help tackle problems such as global warming and searching for a cure for cancer. Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in July said they will make a machine with performance of 10 petaflops, in 2012. The collaboration will last three years and may be extended, Adam Blankenship, a Tokyo-based spokesman at Fujitsu, told Bloomberg news. IBM's Roadrunner model, built for the US Department of Energy to keep track of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, was the first to break the petaflop threshold, or one thousand trillion calculations per second, in 2008, the company said at the time. Cray's XT5, the world's fastest supercomputer, was second later that year.

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Mugflefusysef Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	Supercomputer software project Singapore Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story Jan 19, 2010 Supercomputer software project FUJITSU Ltd, Japan's biggest computer-services provider, and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, or ASTAR, will jointly develop software for a faster generation of supercomputers, reports Bloomberg news. The project will produce applications for the so-called petascale generation of supercomputers, machines that can perform a thousand trillion calculations per second, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. A team of 20 researchers from Fujitsu and AStar's Institute of High Performance Computing will use the Japanese server maker's hardware to develop applications for research in chemicals, electronics, weather modeling and study of infectious diseases, said the statement. The project may help the Tokyo-based company catch up with Cray Inc and International Business Machines Corp in developing computers that can help tackle problems such as global warming and searching for a cure for cancer. Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in July said they will make a machine with performance of 10 petaflops, in 2012. The collaboration will last three years and may be extended, Adam Blankenship, a Tokyo-based spokesman at Fujitsu, told Bloomberg news. IBM's Roadrunner model, built for the US Department of Energy to keep track of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, was the first to break the petaflop threshold, or one thousand trillion calculations per second, in 2008, the company said at the time. Cray's XT5, the world's fastest supercomputer, was second later that year.
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