Japan's soon-to-be most powerful supercomputer is scheduled to start operations in December:
It's a good day to be Intel, Data Direct Networks (DDN), and Fujitsu. The Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC) in Japan today released the details of its next generation supercomputer – Oakforest-PACS – which will deliver 25 PFLOPS, use Intel's Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) manycore processors and Omni-Path Architecture, be built by Fujitsu, and be operational in December 2016.
[...] Fujitsu has taken pains to conserve energy and space use. Oakforest-PACS will be a high-density system with a compact physical footprint, with eight nodes fitting into a 2U rackmount chassis. Advanced "hot water" cooling technology is used to supply cooling water to all the system's components, each of which have different optimum temperatures. In this way efficient cooling at low power is achieved.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gravis on Wednesday May 11 2016, @11:27AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 11 2016, @04:26PM
Fujitsu makes a pretty mean UltraSparc CPU - I'm surprised to see it not used here. I suppose it would be the energy requirements since Sparc is a professional at turning electricity into heat and getting a little bit of extremely fast computation out of it.