Fujitsu VPP5000 installed at ToyotaTokyo 09 Mar 00 Toyota has previously used a Cray Research supercomputer for crash analysis and vibration analysis, and a Fujitsu VPP300 system for fluid analysis and press analysis. The installation of the Fujitsu VPP5000 supercomputer will allow all these analytical tasks to be integrated into the new system Moreover, the Fujitsu VPP5000 system is expected to help greatly reduce the time required for carrying out advanced crash safety, ride comfort and environmental impact analyses, tasks that have become increasingly burdensome in the new car development process. In so doing, the system will help Toyota further improve vehicle performance, while contributing to significant reductions in development costs and time. Fujitsu has sold more than 400 supercomputer systems worldwide. Such systems are being used by a wide range of users, which include not only automobile manufacturers but also makers of electrical machinery, users in the heavy industry and construction fields, as well as universities and research institutes. Fujitsu is currently the vector supercomputer market leader in Japan and ranks second worldwide. Fujitsu's VPP5000 Series supercomputer has a maximum performance of 9.6 Gflop/s per each processor, and has the world's fastest vector CMOS processor. The series is at the leading edge of supercomputer technology, with scalability to 512 processors, and maximum performance of 4.9 Tflop/s.
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