Tokyo, February 14, 2000 - Fujitsu Limited today gives a major boost
to the European technical application business by opening the
Fujitsu Technical Computing Facility in Paris, France. This center
will host Fujitsu parallel compute servers for use by technical
ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to port, tune and validate their
applications. The Facility will be managed by Fujitsu European
Centre for Information Technology Ltd, the applied technical
computing research division of Fujitsu, headquartered in London, UK,
with subsidiary offices in Toulouse, France.
Europe has long been a pioneer in the use of technical computing for
industry as well as scientific research, generating a total market
today worth around 2000 million Euro annually. Moreover, Europe is a
leading producer of the most sophisticated technical applications
software, used world-wide in all fields of industry. By locating this
new test and development resource in Paris, Fujitsu provides the
resources to support its ISV partners in maintaining their codes at
the forefront of their businesses.
The Facility comprises a range of advanced compute server technology,
including VPP5000 vector-parallel supercomputer systems, the machine
with the world's fastest peak single-processor performance - at 9.6
Gflops. A GP7000F multi-processor Solaris server system - based on
Fujitsu SPARC processors - is also installed at the centre. Further
systems will continue to be added, such as a PC cluster environment,
so that the Facility ultimately supports a broad range of processor
and system architectures.
These resources are offered to ISVs to port and validate their
applications. In addition, the Facility is available for designing
and benchmarking end-user studies. Finally, with different types of
servers to work on, ISVs can evaluate and develop their codes to fit
the emerging system architectures, in particular multi-layer memory
hierarchies.
Expert staff will be available at the Facility to provide an
immediate point of contact for Fujitsu partners. Moreover, they are
backed by the extensive network of application and benchmarking
experts throughout the Fujitsu organisation, from across Europe, the
USA and Japan. They will advise and assist on the development of
software technologies to fully exploit the potential of the
applications.
"Fujitsu is committed to providing the high performance solutions
for industrial customers as well as for the scientific users
worldwide," said Mr. Tatsushi Miyazawa, Computer Systems Group
President, Fujitsu Limited. "The creation of this new computing
facility in Europe will strengthen and accelerate the collaboration
with our ISV partners and provide more efficient support to the
end-users."
Fujitsu has delivered a total of approximately 400 vector
supercomputers throughout the world, of which 160 are in the
VX/VPP300/VPP700/VPP800/VPP5000 series. More than 30 VPP Series
systems have already been installed throughout Europe, of which
two VPP5000 systems, the company's newest supercomputers, are
operating in France at Meteo-France and CEA (Commissariat a
l'Energie Atomique).
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of comprehensive
information technology and network solutions for the global
marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates
worldwide -- including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting Group -- the
Fujitsu Group had consolidated revenues of 5.24 trillion yen
($43.3 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1999. With world-
class hardware and software technology in computers,
telecommunications and microelectronics, and a corps of 55,000
systems and services experts around the world, Fujitsu is uniquely
positioned to harness the power of the network to help its customers
succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and
operations in over 100 countries.
Homepage: http://www.fujitsu.com/
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