Tokyo, July 19: Japan’s next-generation supercomputer will be made by Fujitsu Ltd. after its two partners withdrew from a government-sponsored project to develop the computer which will achieve the world’s highest performance of 10 petaflops.
Fujitsu will make the supercomputer for the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, an independent administrative institution known as RIKEN.
RIKEN decided to employ Fujitsu’s scalar processing architecture for the supercomputer as other two Japanese firms, NEC Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. have withdrawn from an earlier attempt to combine their vector architecture with the Fujitsu system.
As originally planned, Fujitsu and RIKEN said they will complete the supercomputer at a facility in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, by fiscal 2012 ending in March 2013 under the USD 1.22 billion project. The total cost is expected to top the planned level, Kyodo news agency reported.
–PTI