HPC End-User Site Update: RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science


March 30, 2012
10 Pages - SKU: IDC4997693
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This IDC Buyer Case Study is the third in a series looking at the progress at RIKEN and explores the current status of the RIKEN Advanced Institute of Computational Science (AICS), which hosts the largest and the fastest supercomputer in the world (at the time this document was written).

The RIKEN AICS system is a true leadership class machine that has held the top spot in the TOP500 list for the past two iterations (www.top500.org). The supercomputer will be fully deployed and available for general access in 2012.




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