Fujitsu to build Portuguese 10Pflops supercomputer with Arm processors

Fujitsu has been awarded a contract worth twenty million euros to build a supercomputer in Portugal. It is a system with a computing power of ten petaflops, based on Fujitsu’s A64FX processor. That Arm chip is also in the fastest supercomputer.

The system will be named Deucalion after the figure from Greek mythology and will be installed at the Minho Advanced Computing Center in Portugal. The computing power will be used there for, among other things, research into new materials and medicines, weather forecasting and climate change. The supercomputer is financed with European money through EuroHPC and money from the Portuguese government.

Fujitsu builds the system with its PrimeHPC FX700 hardware. That is a 2U chassis, containing four blades, each of which fits two nodes. Each node is equipped with a Fujitsu A64FX processor with 48 cores and a clock speed of up to 2GHz. There is 32GB of HBM2 per node.

The hardware is similar to that of the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer. That supercomputer is much larger and has a peak computing power of 537 petaflops. This puts the system in first place in the Top500 list of supercomputers. MACC is one of the first European buyers of Fujitsu supercomputer hardware.

Fujitsu Prime HPC FX700