A supercomputer with high performance density
Japanese computing companies ExaScaler and PEZY Computing have announced the ZettaScaler-1.8, said to be the first supercomputer with a performance density of 1.5 petaFLOPS/m3 (Rpeak). The supercomputer was unveiled last week at SC16, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
The supercomputer is cooled by ExaScaler immersion liquid cooling technology and powered by Vicor 380 to 48 V and 48 to 1 V modules. Powered by 380 VDC, the product utilises Vicor converters to provide 48 V to high-density, high-efficiency direct-to-PoL current multipliers feeding PEZY Computing’s low-voltage, high-current processors.
“ExaScaler and PEZY Computing have achieved substantial improvements in efficiency and density with 380 to 48 V converters and 48 V direct-to-PoL VTM current multipliers from Vicor,” said Motoaki Saito, founder and CEO of ExaScaler and PEZY Computing.
The ZettaScaler-1.8 is a prototype of the ZettaScaler-2.0, due to be released in 2017 with a performance density three times higher than the ZettaScaler-1.8.
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