Japan’s Yokohama City University Selects Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences Research
September 20 2017 - 4:05PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray® XC50-AC™
supercomputer into production. Located in the University’s Advanced
Medical Research Center, the new Cray supercomputer will power
computational drug-discovery research used in the design of new
medicines. The University will also use its Cray system to conduct
atomic-level molecular simulations of proteins, nucleic acids, and
other complexes.
The new air-cooled Cray XC50™ supercomputer at Yokohama City
University is the latest milestone in a long partnership between
the two organizations. In 2007, the University acquired a Cray XT4™
supercomputer, and in 2010, it purchased a Cray XE6m™ system for
bioinformatics research. The University’s new two-cabinet Cray
XC50-AC supercomputer includes the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors, and in addition to supporting life sciences research,
the system will also serve as the University’s primary high
performance computing system.
“Ensuring our researchers and scientists can apply
highly-advanced supercomputing technologies to support our
data-intensive research is a key focus for our University,” said
Akinori Kidera, Professor, YCU. “Our new Cray XC50-AC system
provides us with the supercomputing resources necessary to expand
our computational research capabilities and continue our proud
tradition of science and technology excellence.”
“Yokohama City University is a highly-regarded educational
institution with a proud history in conducting world-class research
in medicine and life sciences, and we are honored that, once again,
a Cray supercomputer will support their groundbreaking research
efforts,” said Mamoru Nakano, president of Cray Japan. “We look
forward to continuing to build on our collaborative partnership
with the University and its user community. We also appreciate the
efforts of SCSK, our prime contractor and reseller in Japan, for
contributing to the success of this project.”
The Cray XC50 series of supercomputers are designed to handle
the most challenging workloads requiring sustained multi-petaflop
performance. They incorporate the Aries high performance network
interconnect for low latency and scalable global bandwidth, as well
as the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Xeon Phi™
processors, and NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU accelerators. With a top peak
performance of 500 petaflops, and one petaflops in a single
cabinet, the Cray XC50 supercomputer delivers on Cray’s commitment
to performance supercomputing with an architecture and software
environment that provides extreme scalability and sustained
performance.
For more information on the Cray XC™ supercomputers, please
visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
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