Fujitsu provides supercomputer system to the Japan Meteorological Agency for forecasting of linear rainbands and torrential rains
TOKYO, Feb 27, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced that it provided a new supercomputer system to the Japan Meteorological Agency (hereinafter JMA) (1) for use in linear rainband forecasting.
- TOKYO, Feb 27, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced that it provided a new supercomputer system to the Japan Meteorological Agency (hereinafter JMA) (1) for use in linear rainband forecasting.
- The new supercomputer system is able to predict the occurrence of linear rainbands (2) which can trigger heavy rain, leading to disasters like landslides and flooding.
- The system is based on the "FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000" (3) hardware, which features the same A64FX CPU as the supercomputer "Fugaku," jointly developed by RIKEN (4) and Fujitsu.
- Reaching a theoretical peak performance of about 31.1 PFLOPS (5), the new system will help the JMA to significantly improve the accuracy of its forecasting of linear rainbands.