March 9, 2000, Tokyo, Japan - Fujitsu Limited today announced that
it has received an order from Toyota Motor Corporation for a multi-
processor VPP5000 Series HPC Server -- the world's fastest vector
supercomputer -- which it has installed and will be fully
operational later this month. The Fujitsu VPP5000 system selected
by Toyota comprises 30 vector processing elements (PEs)*1 and has
a theoretical maximum performance of 288 gigaflops (GFLOPS)*2.
With 320 gigabytes of memory installed, it will be the world's
largest supercomputer system installed in a private enterprise.
Fujitsu has sold more than 400 supercomputer systems worldwide.
Such systems are being used by a wide range of users, which include
not only automobile manufacturers but also makers of electrical
machinery, users in the heavy industry and construction fields, as
well as universities and research institutes. Fujitsu is currently
the vector supercomputer market leader in Japan and ranks second
worldwide. The installation of the VPP5000 system for Toyota
reflects growing demand for analytical high-performance computing
systems in the automotive industry, a segment toward which Fujitsu
intends to expand its sales activity.
Fujitsu's VPP5000 Series supercomputer has a maximum performance of
9.6 gigaflops per each processor, and has the world's fastest vector
CMOS processor. The series is at the leading edge of supercomputer
technology, with scalability to 512 processors, and maximum
performance of 4.9 teraflops (TFLOPS)*3.
| *1: PE (processing element) | - An arithmetic unit |
| *2: GFLOPS (gigaflops) | - Computing performance of one billion
floating-point operations per second |
| *3: TFLOPS (teraflops) | - Computing performance of one trillion
floating-point operations per second |
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.
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