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Fujitsu Launches "Fujitsu Computing as a Service (CaaS)," Delivering Customers Access to World-leading Computing Technologies via the Public Cloud

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Fujitsu will begin sales of the service for the general public and organizations in Japan starting April 6, 2022, with delivery to commence from October.

Key Points: 
  • Fujitsu will begin sales of the service for the general public and organizations in Japan starting April 6, 2022, with delivery to commence from October.
  • Vivek Mahajan, Chief Technology Officer (Corporate Executive Officer, SEVP) Fujitsu Limited, comments: "CaaS will provide customers with seamless access to services on the public cloud to meet rapidly increasing computing demands, leveraging Fujitsu's world-leading advanced computing technologies.
  • In the future, we look to further expand the portfolio with access to technologies like quantum computing.
  • "Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC" provides users access to PRIMEHPC FX1000, Fujitsu's supercomputer model that utilizes technologies cultivated through the design of the world's most powerful supercomputer, Fugaku.

Fujitsu Achieves Major Technical Milestone with World's Fastest 36 Qubit Quantum Simulator

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The newly developed quantum simulator can execute the quantum simulator software "Qulacs"(3) in parallel at high speed, achieving approximately double the performance of other significant quantum simulators(4) in 36 qubit quantum operations.

Key Points: 
  • The newly developed quantum simulator can execute the quantum simulator software "Qulacs"(3) in parallel at high speed, achieving approximately double the performance of other significant quantum simulators(4) in 36 qubit quantum operations.
  • Fujitsu has developed a parallel and distributed quantum simulator for a cluster system consisting of 64 nodes on Fujitsu's PRIMEHPC FX 700.
  • Qiskit(11), one of the major development tools for quantum computer software, is available for Fujitsu's quantum simulator and offers quantum software developers a highly convenient development environment.
  • (Paper)
    (4) Other major quantum simulators: Intel Quantum Simulator (Intel-QS), Forschungszentrum Julich's "JUQCS", IBM's Qiskit-Aer
    (6) Infiniband: A network mainly used in supercomputers to connect servers.

NVIDIA Announces DGX H100 Systems – World’s Most Advanced Enterprise AI Infrastructure

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

DGX H100 systems are the building blocks of the next-generation NVIDIA DGX POD and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI infrastructure platforms.

Key Points: 
  • DGX H100 systems are the building blocks of the next-generation NVIDIA DGX POD and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI infrastructure platforms.
  • Enterprise AI Scales Easily With DGX H100 Systems, DGX POD and DGX SuperPOD
    DGX H100 systems easily scale to meet the demands of AI as enterprises grow from initial projects to broad deployments.
  • Additionally, NVIDIA DGX systems now include the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, which newly supports bare-metal infrastructure.
  • NVIDIA DGX H100 systems, DGX PODs and DGX SuperPODs will be available from NVIDIAs global partners starting in the third quarter.

Fujitsu and Tokyo Medical and Dental University leverage world's fastest supercomputer and AI technology for scientific discovery to shed light on drug resistance in cancer treatment

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Monday, March 7, 2022

The new technology is expected to contribute to the acceleration of drug discovery and the realization of cancer therapies individualized for each patient.

Key Points: 
  • The new technology is expected to contribute to the acceleration of drug discovery and the realization of cancer therapies individualized for each patient.
  • Even if a patient receives a targeted cancer drug(5) therapy, the appearance of drug-resistant cancer cells represents an ongoing threat to full remission.
  • In drug development and clinical trials involving drug repositioning(7), it is important to identify patients for whom drugs are anticipated to have an effect.
  • Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) is Japan's only comprehensive medical university and graduate school, and has provided advanced medical treatment through a fusion of the medical and dental fields and worked to cultivate "professionals with knowledge and humanity."

Fujitsu Leverages World's Fastest Supercomputer and AI Tech in Joint Field Trial for Safe and Efficient Tsunami Evacuations in Kawasaki City

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

During this field trial, participants from the surrounding community will be notified about the arrival time and the flooding height of a predicted tsunami through a special smartphone application developed by Fujitsu.

Key Points: 
  • During this field trial, participants from the surrounding community will be notified about the arrival time and the flooding height of a predicted tsunami through a special smartphone application developed by Fujitsu.
  • Recent years have witnessed the development of several different technologies for real time tsunami flooding forecasts that make use of the capabilities of high-speed supercomputers and AI.
  • The field trial will be followed by an online disaster prevention course, in which evacuation actions of the participants will be reviewed.
  • Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$34 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.

Fujitsu Leads Development of Energy-efficient CPUs and Photonics Smart NIC for Next-generation Green Data Centers Under NEDO Program

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Friday, February 25, 2022

Fujitsu has been selected along with NEC Corporation, AIO Core Corporation, Kioxia Corporation, Fujitsu Optical Components Co., Ltd. and KYOCERA Corporation.

Key Points: 
  • Fujitsu has been selected along with NEC Corporation, AIO Core Corporation, Kioxia Corporation, Fujitsu Optical Components Co., Ltd. and KYOCERA Corporation.
  • Within this project, Fujitsu will lead the development of low-power consumption CPUs and photonics smart NIC optimized for next-generation green data centers.
  • Additionally, Fujitsu Optical Components will work with Fujitsu to develop photonics smart NIC.
  • Fujitsu will further refine this technology and develop a low-power consumption CPU that can be used in next-generation green data centers.

Rescale Survey Reveals Profound Disruptions as Industry and Government Shift Workloads to the Cloud for Computational Science and Engineering Workloads

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Computational Science & Engineering is giving early adopters competitive advantages in every major market around the world today, said Edward Hsu, Chief Product Officer, Rescale.

Key Points: 
  • Computational Science & Engineering is giving early adopters competitive advantages in every major market around the world today, said Edward Hsu, Chief Product Officer, Rescale.
  • Where we see the early and most promising design and discovery breakthroughs is where organizations unlock computational barriers and embrace the cloud.
  • Rescale provides the leading platform that enables those breakthroughs while providing IT the security and control they need.
  • Rescale is high performance computing built for the cloud, to empower engineers while giving IT security and control.

kMoL, a Machine Learning Library for AI Drug Discovery With Federated Learning Capabilities

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Elix, Inc., an AI drug discovery company with the mission of Rethinking Drug Discovery (CEO: Shinya Yuki/Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; hereinafter referred to as Elix) has developed kMoL, a machine learning library for AI drug discovery with federated learning functionally.

Key Points: 
  • Elix, Inc., an AI drug discovery company with the mission of Rethinking Drug Discovery (CEO: Shinya Yuki/Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; hereinafter referred to as Elix) has developed kMoL, a machine learning library for AI drug discovery with federated learning functionally.
  • Abstract: A machine learning library for AI drug discovery with federated learning capabilities.
  • kMoL incorporates Elix Mila, a federated learning module developed by Elix, making kMoL the only machine learning library with federated learning capabilities among those released for AI drug discovery.
  • When Elix started developing kMoL, most machine learning libraries with federated learning capabilities were based on the machine learning framework TensorFlow.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils Supercomputing Research That Raises the Bar for Achieving Quantum Advantage

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new research that demonstrates how supercomputers can be used to test and benchmark computational performance for the quantum computing community, redefining theoretical performance claims that future quantum computers will deliver.

Key Points: 
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new research that demonstrates how supercomputers can be used to test and benchmark computational performance for the quantum computing community, redefining theoretical performance claims that future quantum computers will deliver.
  • HPEs latest research outcome is a powerful example of the sustained value of HPC and the potential for novel algorithms in classical and quantum computing.
  • The experiment and results were published in todays paper, The Boundary of Quantum Advantage in Gaussian Boson Sampling .
  • Near-term quantum experiments are based on todays available quantum computers which use noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.

Rescale and Riken Sign Partnership for using RIKEN and “Fugaku” -- World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Under the partnership, Rescale and RIKEN will conduct a new research project: "Rescale ScaleX on Supercomputer Fugaku."

Key Points: 
  • Under the partnership, Rescale and RIKEN will conduct a new research project: "Rescale ScaleX on Supercomputer Fugaku."
  • The partnership will enable Fugakus platform, one of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world , to be more accessible to commercial uses in the cloud.
  • Over 400 customers, from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises, use Rescale to accelerate design cycles and commercialize new product innovations.
  • Rescale empowers scientists and engineers outcome-based SLAs, while providing enterprise IT & HPC teams policy-based security and control on their cloud infrastructure of choice.