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DDN Advances Powerful Enterprise AI Breakthroughs with Its Latest AI Storage Platform

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

"We designed this next generation of A3I solutions to give customers the most efficient, scalable and reliable AI data platform," said Dr. James Coomer, senior VP of products, DDN.

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  • "We designed this next generation of A3I solutions to give customers the most efficient, scalable and reliable AI data platform," said Dr. James Coomer, senior VP of products, DDN.
  • AI is a powerful business enabler, and the AI400X2 will help customers get into production faster and reduce time to results."
  • "High-performance storage is essential to AI infrastructure, and DDN's newest storage appliance, the AI400X2, provides a platform that can rapidly supply data for the most demanding AI development requirements on NVIDIA DGX systems."
  • DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale.

Ansys Enables More Sustainable Product Development with Fujitsu

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Friday, October 15, 2021

Through a new collaboration with Fujitsu, Ansys is not only reducing product costs and hardware limitations for joint customers, but also enabling more sustainable product development.

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  • Through a new collaboration with Fujitsu, Ansys is not only reducing product costs and hardware limitations for joint customers, but also enabling more sustainable product development.
  • "Ansys LS-DYNA is the first commercially released CAE structural simulation solution available that supports the Arm-based FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000 and FX700," said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys.
  • "Our work with Fujitsu enables users to overcome hardware limitations and reach production goals more sustainably.
  • Ansys and any and all ANSYS, Inc. brand, product, service and feature names, logos and slogans are registered trademarks or trademarks of ANSYS, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries.

DDN Federal Government Business Grows Over 30% as Company Doubles Size of Federal Team

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN , the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions, today announced it has expanded DDN Federal division, doubling the size of its team over the past nine months.

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  • CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN , the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions, today announced it has expanded DDN Federal division, doubling the size of its team over the past nine months.
  • "DDN is proud to be a trusted partner for the Federal Government, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DoE), and Federal Healthcare agencies," said Jeff Jordan, VP of Federal Sales.
  • These, and similar systems found in federal agencies and national laboratories, require unique data management and performance characteristics found only in DDN solutions.
  • Through its DDN and Tintri divisions the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations.

Japan's Fugaku Retains Title as World's Fastest Supercomputer for three consecutive terms

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Monday, June 28, 2021

TOKYO, June 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for three consecutive terms on all four of the major high-performance computer rankings.

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  • TOKYO, June 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for three consecutive terms on all four of the major high-performance computer rankings.
  • The results this time were made with Fugaku's full complement of 158,976 nodes fit into 432 racks.
  • With this continued dominance we have been show that Fugaku is leading the world in a range of areas.
  • Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$34 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.

Fujitsu Demonstrates High Performance Simulations for Industrial Use Cases with Commercial Applications on the World's Fastest Supercomputer, Fugaku

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Fujitsu and the participating vendors have additionally collaborated to validate operations and conduct performance tuning for commercial applications in high demand with manufacturers for Fugaku as well as the Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC series, which draws on technology developed for the Fugaku project.

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  • Fujitsu and the participating vendors have additionally collaborated to validate operations and conduct performance tuning for commercial applications in high demand with manufacturers for Fugaku as well as the Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC series, which draws on technology developed for the Fugaku project.
  • However, the growing demand for increasingly complex simulations presents challenges for users requiring rapid calculation results.
  • In large-scale simulations, Fujitsu analyzed the performance of commercial applications, did performance tuning to eliminate bottlenecks and applied parallel processing technology so that they could run efficiently with highly parallel processing.
  • Leveraging its industry-leading capabilities in high performance computing and its applications, Fujitsu will continue to contribute to the active development and innovation of technology development and research.

Hexagon Adopts The Supercomputer Fugaku To Revolutionise The Use Of Simulations In Product Innovation

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

As a result, the cost and time to achieve these simulations is prohibitive and engineers can only simulate an approximation of a product.

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  • As a result, the cost and time to achieve these simulations is prohibitive and engineers can only simulate an approximation of a product.
  • Now, Hexagon's Cradle CFD customers will have the opportunity to tap into the power of the ARM-based Fugaku computer architecture to achieve complex simulations quickly and easily.
  • Hexagon experts collaborated closely with Fujitsu Limited to tune the Cradle CFD code to run on Fugaku and complete test simulations.
  • "Both Cradle CFD and Fugaku are based in Japan, and I believe we can leverage these excellent achievements globally through Hexagon's network."

Fujitsu and RIKEN Complete Joint Development of Japan's Fugaku, the World's Fastest Supercomputer

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

In 2014, RIKEN and Fujitsu began joint development of Fugaku and completed delivery of all racks in May 2020.

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  • In 2014, RIKEN and Fujitsu began joint development of Fugaku and completed delivery of all racks in May 2020.
  • Since then, they have developed and optimized the user environment in preparation for the commencement of shared use.
  • It is expected to have various impacts ranging from solving familiar social problems to helping improve understanding of fundamental science.
  • Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.9 trillion yen (US$35 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020.

Fujitsu Leverages World's Fastest Supercomputer 'Fugaku' and AI to Deliver Real-Time Tsunami Prediction in Joint Project

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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

As part of the joint initiative, numerous high-resolution tsunami simulations were carried out using Japan's flagship supercomputer Fugaku.

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  • As part of the joint initiative, numerous high-resolution tsunami simulations were carried out using Japan's flagship supercomputer Fugaku.
  • A new AI model was then created using simulated offshore tsunami waveforms and coastal flooding conditions as training data.
  • Ultimately, this technology offers the potential for disaster management teams to make near real-time, data-driven disaster mitigation and evacuation measures.
  • Founded in 1968 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. is one of the premier research centers in the world.

Japanese Research Group Performs Largest Ever Meteorological Calculation on Supercomputer Fugaku

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

In June and November 2020, supercomputer Fugaku consecutively won first place in four categories of the world rankings for a variety of computing performance metrics.

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  • In June and November 2020, supercomputer Fugaku consecutively won first place in four categories of the world rankings for a variety of computing performance metrics.
  • This research is the result of conducting the largest and most feasible experiment of high-resolution and large ensemble data assimilation using Fugaku, marking the culmination of these co-design achievements.
  • Figure 2 shows the flow of the calculation and the amount of data input and output for each calculation.
  • As an example of the calculation result, the calculation time of the data assimilation part is summarized in Fig.

Fugaku Tops Supercomputer Rankings Again as Arm HPC Ecosystem Expands

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

In addition to the great work RIKEN and Fujitsu have done, Arm-based solutions have continued to be adopted across the Arm ecosystem.

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  • In addition to the great work RIKEN and Fujitsu have done, Arm-based solutions have continued to be adopted across the Arm ecosystem.
  • And, NVIDIA also announced researchers are achieving a nearly 26x performance boost for Arm in HPC with NVIDIA A100 GPUs and Arm Neoverse-based Ampere Altra CPUs.
  • Arm is proud of the positive impact Fugaku has already had in COVID-19 related research efforts.
  • The hardware advances parallel the burgeoning activity in the software community to expand the options for Arm in HPC.