ClearSpeed Technology has said that the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s TSUBAME Supercomputer has achieved an accelerated processing performance of 47.53 trillion 64-bit floating point operations per second (TeraFlops).
The TSUBAME is Japan’s highest performance supercomputer and has seen this increase in performance through the use of 360 ClearSpeed Advance boards. It is now the world’s fifth fastest in the Top 500 Ranking, said the processor acceleration company.
The supercomputer will be used for compute-intensive applications in a variety of research areas, including bio-science, nano-science, environmental and disaster prevention simulations.
According to Professor Satoshi Matsuoka of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology: “Acceleration technology is acknowledged to be the wave of the future for supercomputing.”
The supercomputer is based on processor technology from Sun, AMD and NEC, and according to ClearSpeed the results demonstrate “the effectiveness of systems which exploit both general purpose processors from vendors such as AMD and Intel with ClearSpeed’s acceleration”.
“It also proves the impact of using ClearSpeed’s acceleration to help meet these intense performance needs with lower cost, lower power consuming, and therefore lower emission-generating, systems than has previously been possible,” said Tom Beese, chief executive of ClearSpeed.