ESI Group and Fujitsu in strategic collaboration for Crash and CFD SimulationParis 14 Feb 00 ESI will also use a Fujitsu VX multi- processor system installed at PSI, a subsidiary of ESI Group. Herve Charlier, COO and Technical Director of PSI, welcomes the commitment demonstrated by Fujitsu in the creation of such a center in Europe: "Our clients use leading-edge parallel computing solutions from Fujitsu to solve some of the largest simulation tasks in engineering. It is critical to have fast and easy access to equivalent hardware to support our worldwide clients. Fujitsu's center in Paris offers the range of machines we require for testing and evaluation and, importantly, direct accesses to applications experts who can help us resolve problems and optimize our code. Close co-operation with key vendors like Fujitsu is essential for us to further enhance the parallel capabilities of our software and offer the maximum benefit to the end-user." The Fujitsu VPP series vector parallel supercomputers are used by industrial customers worldwide, including automotive manufacturers, aeronautic laboratories, energy research laboratories, as well as scientific institutes. More than 30 VPP series systems have already been installed throughout Europe, of which two VPP5000 are operating in France at Meteo-France and CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique). Successor to the VX/VPP300/VPP700 series, the VPP5000 is Fujitsu's newest vector-parallel supercomputer series. Based on a distributed- memory system architecture, the VPP5000 can deliver highly-scalable performance with configurations ranging from a single processor up to a maximum of 512 processors. Each processor utilises the industry's most advanced low-power CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology LSIs and SDRAM memory units. The maximum performance of each processor - at 9.6 Gflops - is the world's fastest CMOS-based processor in a production system today, claims Fujitsu.
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