Japan’s Tohoku University has turned to Fujitsu to install a new high performance computing system for the Institute of Fluid Science in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

Known simply as the Supercomputer System, the Primergy x86 server setup is expected to deliver a theoretical peak performance of more than 2.7 petaflops when it launches in fiscal 2018.

Water works

The supercomputer actually consists of three systems - two shared-memory parallel computation systems, and one distributed-memory parallel computation system. It also has a login server, and an application and remote graphics server.

Specifics of the deployment were light on detail, but Fujitsu did say that it would be using water cooling. That is perhaps fitting, as the machine will be used for fluid physics research.

The institute plans to use the Supercomputer System to research the phenomena of fluids in fields such as biology, energy, aerospace and semiconductors.

The announcement comes exactly one month after Fujitsu announced it would supply the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology with Japan’s fastest supercomputer, with a theoretical peak performance of 37 petaflops.