NEC this week announced that it had been selected to develop a next-generation supercomputer for Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). The machine will use Intel's Xeon 6900P processors, AMD's Instinct MI300A accelerators and will offer performance of around 40 PetaFLOPS. It will be mainly tasked with advancing nuclear fusion research.
The system is set to be installed at QST’s Rokkasho Institute for Fusion Energy in Aomori, Japan, and will include 360 NEC LX 204Bin-3 units powered by 720 Intel Xeon 6900P processors equipped with MRDIMM DDR5 memory and 70 NEC LX 401Bax-3GA units with AMD Instinct MI300A GPUs, reaching a combined theoretical performance of 40.4 PetaFLOPS. The CPUs and GPUs will take advantage of Giga Computing-developed liquid cooling to ensure consistent performance and high reliability.
