is a

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developed by and

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, based around ExaScaler's ZettaScaler immersion cooling system. It was deployed at the

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(JAMSTEC) Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, the same floor where the

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is located. Amid the scandal regarding the development grant, it was removed from JAMSTEC in April 2018.

System

Gyoukou is based on ExaScaler's ZettaScaler-2.x technology which features liquid immersion cooling system using

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. Each immersion tank can contain 16 ''Bricks''. A Brick consists of a backplane board, 32

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modules, 4 Intel Xeon D host processors, and 4

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EDR cards. Modules inside a Brick are connected by hierarchical

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fabric switches, and the Bricks are interconnected by InfiniBand. Each PEZY-SC2 module contains 2048 processing elements (1 GHz design), six

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control processors, and 4

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s (64GB per module as of November 2017).

Performance

With partial configuration, Gyoukou was ranked 69th at 1,677.1

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on the June 2017

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ranking. After upgrade to full scale (equivalent of 19.5 immersion tanks) using newer ZettaScaler-2.2 system, it ranked 4th at 19,135.8 teraflops on the November 2017 TOP500 ranking. At the time of benchmarking, 1984 out of 2048 cores of each PEZY-SC2 were used at 700 MHz clock. Gyoukou has high energy efficiency, and it ranked 5th at 14.173 gigaflops/watt on the November 2017

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energy efficiency ranking. at the time benchmarked as 19,860,000 "cores" (after an upgrade).

Notes

External links

ExaScaler Inc.

PEZY Computing K.K.
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