Fujitsu Australia Limited received the contract for upgrade of the supercomputer at the state university of Australia

2019: Upgrade of the supercomputer

On July 29, 2019 the Fujitsu company announced that Fujitsu Australia Limited received the contract for upgrade of the supercomputer in Australia for strengthening of positions of the country in the world scientific community. The computer will be placed at the Australian national university in Canberra, and the control will be transferred by it in National computer center of Australia (National Computational Infrastructure, NCI). It will provide scientists with computing powers with tenfold increase in speed of calculations.

The Gadi supercomputer that means "look for" in language of aboriginals of the region, will replace the operating Raijin supercomputer which is also installed to Fujitsu in 2012. Equipped with 3200 nodes, Gadi will participate in work on several essential researches, helping to find solutions for the complex existing problems which not only Australia, but also the whole world faced.

For ensuring the best result Fujitsu connected in the supercomputer not only own technologies, but also technologies of some other suppliers, including Lenovo Intel Nvidia NetApp Mellanox Technologies, DDN (Lustre), Altair and APC by Schneider Electric. Such approach should provide the Australian scientists with necessary computing resources for many years. In Gadi the innovative developments in the field of technology of direct liquid cooling with warm water of Fujitsu and Lenovo Neptune company will be used. A system is equipped servers Fujitsu PRIMERGY CX2570 with M5 and also processors Intel Xeon Platinum of the second generation, a fixed memory Intel Optane DC and graphic processors NVIDIA V100 for acceleration of deep learning and transactions of an output.

Fujitsu is proud of the fact that it is a part of this important initiative which will play a significant role in progress of the Australian science. We with impatience expect updating and further strengthening of our old relations with the Australian national university and National computer center of Australia which include not only commissioning of the Raijin supercomputer, but also ascend by 1980th years when we put one of the first supercomputers of the Australian national university into operation, noted Mike Foster, the CEO of Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand