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Fujitsu announces winners of the Fujitsu quantum simulator challenge

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

TOKYO, Jan 25, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu from February to September 2023 conducted the "Fujitsu $100,000 Quantum Simulator Challenge," a global competition in which Fujitsu called members of the industry and academia to test Fujitsu's 39 qubit quantum simulator on novel problems and applications.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Jan 25, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu from February to September 2023 conducted the "Fujitsu $100,000 Quantum Simulator Challenge," a global competition in which Fujitsu called members of the industry and academia to test Fujitsu's 39 qubit quantum simulator on novel problems and applications.
  • Fujitsu plans to hold the quantum simulator challenge again in 2024 and beyond, utilizing an enhanced quantum simulator with 40 qubits, one of the largest in the world (3).
  • Hideto Okada, Head of Technology Strategy Unit, Fujitsu, comments:
    "Participants of the quantum simulator challenge have developed various advanced applications using Fujitsu's quantum simulator.
  • As feedback from users of quantum simulators represents an important key in the development of quantum applications, Fujitsu opened up some of its quantum simulator resources to the public and started the "Fujitsu $100,000 Quantum Simulator Challenge" to gain feedback from participating research institutions, universities, and companies competing for quantum application development in various fields.

Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN start collaboration to develop distributed training of Large Language Models

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Monday, May 22, 2023

Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN are undertaking an initiative to this end that will focus on research and development toward distributed training of LLMs.

Key Points: 
  • Tokyo Tech, Tohoku University, Fujitsu, and RIKEN are undertaking an initiative to this end that will focus on research and development toward distributed training of LLMs.
  • The technology used in this initiative will allow the organizations to efficiently perform large-scale language model training on the large-scale parallel computing environment of the supercomputer Fugaku.
  • Leveraging the insights gained from deep learning from Japanese natural language processing developed at Tohoku University, we will construct large-scale models.
  • Distributed Training of Large Language Models on Fugaku (Project Number: hp230254)
    Neural networks with hundreds of millions to billions of parameters that have been pre-learned using large amounts of data.

CESGA and Fujitsu Establish Quantum Center in Galicia to Develop and Promote Quantum Technology

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Friday, April 21, 2023

CESGA was established in 1991 to contribute to the development of science and technology using high-performance computers and communication technologies for the benefit of society.

Key Points: 
  • CESGA was established in 1991 to contribute to the development of science and technology using high-performance computers and communication technologies for the benefit of society.
  • Due to the undeniable evolution of quantum technologies, CESGA has determined to start its quantum journey, selecting Fujitsu as its partner to create an international quantum technology hub in Galicia, which will allow them to have all the necessary resources in place for creating knowledge, attracting talent and securing future investment for the Region.
  • As CESGA's technology partner, Fujitsu will contribute its expertise in the field of quantum computing, acquired through its ongoing development of innovative quantum and quantum-related technologies, including hardware and software.
  • "We are excited to cooperate with CESGA at the new quantum center to drive the development of technology research and industrial applications in Europe, and contribute to job creation and human resource development in the quantum industry."

Fujitsu provides supercomputer system to the Japan Meteorological Agency for forecasting of linear rainbands and torrential rains

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Monday, February 27, 2023

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.

Key Points: 
  • 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.

Fujitsu develops supercomputer system for Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau for numerical weather forecasting

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

TOKYO, Jan 17, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the development of a supercomputer system for Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (hereinafter CWB)(1) for use in numerical weather predictions.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Jan 17, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the development of a supercomputer system for Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (hereinafter CWB)(1) for use in numerical weather predictions.
  • The new system started operation in June 2022 under an initiative that was initially implemented in 2021.
  • The system is primarily based on Fujitsu's supercomputer "FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000" hardware, which features the same A64FX CPU as the supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu.
  • Fujitsu will continue to support the CWB's weather forecast services by providing its high reliable technical expertise in high performance computing (HPC) and know-how in weather services in general.

Fujitsu develops quantum/HPC hybrid computing technology to optimize solution brokering for customers

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

TOKYO, Nov 8, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the development of quantum/HPC hybrid computing technology to optimize workload selection for customers.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Nov 8, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the development of quantum/HPC hybrid computing technology to optimize workload selection for customers.
  • Crucially, the technology allows users without specialized knowledge to use quantum simulators and HPC technology to provide effective solutions to real-world problems.
  • Fujitsu is currently working to develop a computing workload broker--a software technology that uses AI to automatically select the appropriate resources from advanced computing technologies and solutions, including large-scale cloud-based HPC, quantum computing, Digital Annealer, as well as quantum simulators to solve customers' complex problems.
  • In this way, the computing workload broker will enable high-speed calculations and solutions according to customers' specific needs.

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.