The PRIMEHPC FX10 is a supercomputer designed and manufactured by Fujitsu. Announced on 7 November 2011 at the

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, the PRIMEHPC FX10 is an improved and commercialized version of the

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, which was the first supercomputer to obtain more than 10 PFLOPS on the

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. In its largest configuration, the PRIMEHPC FX10 has a peak performance 23.2 PFLOPS, power consumption of 22.4 MW, and a list price of US$655.4 million. It was succeeded by the PRIMEHPC FX100 with SPARC64 XIfx processors in 2015.

Specifications

* Node specifications: ** Theoretical peak performance: 236.5

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** Processor: One 1.848 GHz, 16-core SPARC64 IXfx ** Memory capacity: 32 or 64 GB ** Memory bandwidth: 85 GB/s ** Tofu Interconnect link bandwidth: 5 GB/s per direction (Tofu has dedicated links for each direction) * System specifications: ** 4 to 1,024 racks ** 384 to 98,304 compute nodes ** Theoretical peak performance: 90.8 TFLOPS to 23.2 PFLOPS ** Total memory capacity: 12 TB to 6 PB **

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: Torus fusion (Tofu); 6D

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hybrid ** Cooling method: Direct water cooling and air cooling (with optional exhaust cooling unit) * Operating System: **

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-based

Installations

The first installation of the PRIMEHPC FX10 was at the

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's Information Technology Center. Named Oakleaf-FX, the system has a peak performance of 1.135 PFLOPS and consists of 4,800 nodes (for a total of 76,800 cores) and 150 TB of memory in 50 racks. Oakleaf-FX was ordered in November 2011, and it became operational in April 2012. In June 2012 was ranked as the 18th fastest supercomputer in the 39th

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list of the fastest supercomputers, with a LINPACK benchmark performance of 1.043 PFLOPS. In June 2012, Fujitsu received an order from the Republic of China's

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, the first PRIMEHPC FX10 sale outside of Japan. This system, which was installed in 2014, has a performance of over 1 PFLOPS. In addition to serving as a platform for high-performance computing, the PRIMEHPC FX10 was also intended to serve as a software development platform for the

, which it is compatible with. Fujitsu has sold several systems for K computer software development, including a 96-node system in June 2012 to

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's Graduate School of Informatics, and 384-node system in August 2012 to the University of Tokyo's Institute for Solid-State Physics.

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Specifications

Installations

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