Yukawa Institute buys 40 Gflop/s NEC SX-5Tokyo 18 August 2000 The Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics of Kyoto University placed an order for a four processor SX-5/4C parallel vector supercomputer. The system is from the newly enhanced SX-5 Series and provides 40 Gflop/s peak performance.
The Institute will use the new supercomputer for
developing more accurate computer models of phenomenon ranging from the micro
structures of elementary particles to large-scale structures such as the
cosmos. Researchers at the Yukawa Institute specialise in areas of
theoretical
physics including elementary particle physics, solid state physics, complex
systems physics, and astrophysics.
Because of the wide range of research being conducted, the Institute has
selected multiple systems types to enhance their computational resources. In
addition to the SX-5 parallel vector supercomputer, the installation will
include three NEC TX7 Scalable Servers, an SGI SN-MIPS server, and a Compaq
Computer ES40. Each system excels in supporting various requirements of the
Institute, and are fully complementary to each other in the overall
environment.
The SX-5 supercomputer provides the computational capability
necessary to support the Institute's highly competitive research needing
results in short time frames, which is enabled by the pure power of the
system
coupled with ease of programming because of its uniquely high performance
shared main memory and automatic parallelization features. The various
servers
provide computational capacity for smaller modelling problems as well as
utility functions such as facility-level file management and database
services. The new SX-5 Series system will begin operation in January, 2001.
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