RIKEN collaborated with Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu) and NVIDIA to launch an international initiative for the development of Japan's new flagship supercomputer. The supercomputer will showcase the next-generation successor to the current "Fugaku" supercomputer (development codename: "FugakuNEXT"). Japan’s flagship supercomputing systems will adopt GPU accelerators for the very first time, with NVIDIA leading the design of the GPU infrastructure.
Fujitsu will lead the basic design of the overall system, compute nodes, and CPUs. As a foundation for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, the three organizations will collaborate together to build an "AI-HPC platform" to cater to the challenges through computation.
This initiative will combine RIKEN's strengths in software and algorithm technologies, Fujitsu's expertise in CPU and system integration technologies, and NVIDIA's GPU technologies and ecosystem. The companies aim to develop a highly competitive system and establish a global ecosystem through deployment in the international market.
Through joint Japan-U.S. efforts in developing FugakuNEXT, the project seeks to hold an "AI-HPC platform" as a new global standard, and to dramatically accelerate "AI for Science" - the automation and advancement of research processes such as hypothesis generation and validation. The introduction of this world-class "AI-HPC platform" will improve globally competitive domestic technologies as well as strengthen Japan's strategic indispensability in the information industry and semiconductor technologies, thereby strengthening its industrial competitiveness.
The FUJITSU-MONAKA-X CPU, currently being designed by Fujitsu, will be an enhanced version of the high-performance, energy-efficient, as well as high security FUJITSU-MONAKA. With ultra-many cores and extended SIMD functionality providing high scalability, it will deliver outstanding processing performance for HPC applications such as numerical simulations. These technological advancements will enable the system to address a broad range of spectrum of computing needs, from general-purpose workloads to numerical simulations and AI processing.
