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With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus

May 18, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …

HPC

Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image

December 9, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …

HPC

Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC

October 1, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …

HPC

Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle

April 16, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

RIKEN and Fujitsu announced that they have finished the design of the Post-K exascale platform, paving the way for production of the hardware, followed by shipping and installation. …

HPC

Japan’s K Computer Shutdown Marks the End of an Era

February 8, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

Earlier this week, the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) announced that in August it will pull the plug on its flagship HPC system, the K computer. …

Connect

Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect

September 14, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …

Compute

Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High

August 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …

Compute

Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype

June 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

This story has been updated with new information since it originally ran. …

Compute

ARM Puts Some Muscle Into Vector Number Crunching

August 23, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If the ARM processor in its many incarnations is to take on the reigning Xeon champ in the datacenter and the born again Power processor that is also trying to knock Xeons from the throne, it is going to need some bigger vector math capabilities. …

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