Nov 3 2008
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has selected the new Cray XT5 supercomputer as the main system for its high-performance computing facility. This will be the first Cray XT5 system in Japan to utilize Cray's recently introduced ECOphlex liquid-cooling technology.
JAIST, one of Japan's premier academic research centers, will use the new computer system to speed advances in the development of new algorithms for highly parallel computers, large-scale simulations and visualization in nanotechnology, biomechanics and a wide range of other scientific disciplines.
Cray will install the Cray XT5 supercomputer with ECOphlex technology and a peak performance of 18.8 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) at the JAIST facility near Kanazawa City, Ishikawa, Japan. The Cray XT5 system is designed to run very challenging, high-end scientific research and engineering applications with superior scalability, performance and reliability. The new system is a fully compatible upgrade to the Cray XT3 system, installed at JAIST in 2005.
"The new Cray XT5 supercomputer offers an order of magnitude increase in processing power compared to our Cray XT3 system while continuing its excellent scalability features and highly balanced system design, as well as its excellent price-performance," said Teruo Matsuzawa, Ph.D, director of the JAIST Center for Information Science and manager of JAIST's supercomputer facility. "Over the past decade, JAIST has built world-class expertise in massively parallel algorithms and applications. The Cray XT5 system will meet our challenging requirements perfectly."
"The JAIST faculty and the Center for Information Science have exceptional expertise in large-scale parallel computing and a broad portfolio of highly parallel applications. We are excited that JAIST users will have access to Cray's newest, most powerful supercomputer with our ECOphlex liquid-cooling technology. With more than ten times the performance than they previously had, we believe that the new system will allow JAIST users to tackle both larger and more complex problems," said Mamoru Nakano, president of Cray Japan.