The official start of operation of the T2K supercomputer systems featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors and with specifications developed jointly by the University of Tokyo, the University of Tsukuba, and Kyoto University has been announced today by AMD Japan. These T2K systems were delivered by Cray Japan Inc. to the University of Tsukuba, by Sumisho Computer Systems, to the University of Tokyo by Hitachi Ltd., and by Fujitsu Ltd. to Kyoto University.

With four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors per node, the University of Tokyo supercomputer system is comprised of 952 nodes of the Hitachi HA8000-tc/RS425 technical server. As designed, the system achieves a theoretical peak performance of approximately 140 teraflops. A teraflop or “tflop” is the computing power required to process one trillion floating point operations per second. At the time of launch, this theoretical peak performance is the fastest in Japan.

The outstanding system performance and advanced floating point processing enabled by Quad-core AMD Opteron processors will be provided by the T2K supercomputers to these universities. The universities can also be provided, by the selection of AMD technology for these highly advanced systems can also provide, with much-needed energy efficiency in the form of performance-per-watt and innovative processor-level power management features such as AMD CoolCore™ Technology and Independent Dynamic Core Technology.

Including the large-scale scientific calculations for researching subatomic particles and nuclear astronomy, climate modeling and weather forecasting, energy, and genetics and biomedical advancements, among many others, the computing power of the new AMD processor-based T2K supercomputers and the synergy of advanced research expertise in computer science developed over many years at these three universities is expected to help address increasingly diverse needs in industry and academia.
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