Fujitsu to build Taiwan's highest-performing supercomputer

Fujitsu and Fujitsu Taiwan will build a new supercomputer system for Taiwan’s National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) that is forecast to have the highest performance in the country at the time it commences operation. The system will serve as the core platform for research and development in Taiwan, fostering the development and growth of the country’s overall industries and economy.

Established in 1991, NCHC is Taiwan’s only national-level supercomputer centre. It is used by over 1000 people from Taiwan’s research institutions and private companies, as well as foreign researchers, thereby contributing to the advancement of Taiwan’s scientific and technological capabilities. The new system will give the centre a research platform that can accommodate research fields such as AI and big data, as well as accelerate the pace of further research.

The PC cluster system comprises 715 servers, including a next-generation model of the Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY, and brings together high-performance computing technologies such as the latest server CPU from Intel and fastest current GPU from NVIDIA. The CPUs have a theoretical peak performance of over 2.13 petaflops 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.

Each computation node is connected by Fujitsu’s latest high-speed interconnect, Intel Omni-Path Architecture. With the acceleration technology held by Fujitsu and Fujitsu Laboratories, it is said to deliver highly parallel processing performance. Moreover, the system uses Fujitsu’s cutting-edge cooling technology, enabling energy conservation with an efficient cooling system.

The system is scheduled to commence operation in May 2018.