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Fujitsu to provide AIST's "ABCI," the world's largest computational infrastructure for AI processing via Fujitsu Computing as a Service (CaaS)

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Friday, December 23, 2022
Cloud, Acceleration, Drug discovery, AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, CAAS, ABCI, HPC, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, GPU, AI, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, SVP, Senior, Medical device, Video game console, Fujitsu

With the new service, Fujitsu aims to support companies in accelerating their R&D activities and improve their productivity using AI and HPC technologies.

Key Points: 
  • With the new service, Fujitsu aims to support companies in accelerating their R&D activities and improve their productivity using AI and HPC technologies.
  • With the aim to accelerate AI development in Japan, AIST in 2018 launched "ABCI", one of the world's largest computational infrastructures.
  • Fujitsu offers CaaS as a cloud service portfolio including high-performance computing (HPC) and AI technologies as well as Fujitsu's quantum-inspired Digital Annealer.
  • A service launched by AIST in August 2018 to promote the social implementation of AI as a large-scale AI cloud computing system that can be used by general enterprises.

Fujitsu's Digital Annealer achieves excellent results in the Kutxabank project of requesting assets from its investment portfolios

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Thursday, December 22, 2022
Fujitsu, Kutxabank, Environment, Investment, Cryptocurrency, Renewable energy, Risk management

- Fujitsu's Digital Annealer has made it possible to calculate the optimal distribution of investments to be made, through a series of extremely complex permutation operations.

Key Points: 
  • - Fujitsu's Digital Annealer has made it possible to calculate the optimal distribution of investments to be made, through a series of extremely complex permutation operations.
  • TOKYO, Dec 22, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu's quantum-inspired solution, Digital Annealer, has achieved excellent results in the ambitious project that the financial institution Kutxabank is developing to improve the allocation of assets to its investment portfolios.
  • It consists of choosing and distributing financial assets in an investment portfolio, one of the most important decisions faced by management companies.
  • Fujitsu's Digital Annealer is the quantum-inspired digital technology architecture that harnesses innovations in high-density circuit integration and high-performance processing.

Fujitsu and Tokai University develop ultrasound AI tech to test quality of frozen tuna

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Society, Foundation for Focused Ultrasound Research, Conference, Tokai University, IEICE, Meat, Safety, Food safety, Trust, Medical device, Fujitsu

- The technology achieves an accuracy of 70% to 80% offering possibility to improve trust across distribution chain, while improving safety and quality for consumers

Key Points: 
  • - The technology achieves an accuracy of 70% to 80% offering possibility to improve trust across distribution chain, while improving safety and quality for consumers
    - Potential future applications include enhancing food safety in the meat industry, as well as the medical field
    TOKYO, Dec 21, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Tokai University and Fujitsu today revealed the successful development of a new technology to inspect the freshness of frozen tuna in Japan.
  • Joint research focused on the development of novel ultrasound AI technology (1), resulting in the world's first technique to measure the meat quality of frozen tuna without the need to cut or damage the product.
  • The new technology thus offers a new method to inspect the quality of frozen tuna without lowering its value, and may one day contribute to greater trust and safety in the global distribution of frozen tuna and other food products.
  • The joint research will be presented by both parties at the Technical Committee Conference of the Society for Ultrasound Research (hosted by the IEICE) to be held in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, from December 22 to December 23, 2022.