Fujitsu as well as Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, well-known as RIKEN, just proclaim that RIKEN has determined to use an innovative system configuration with a scalar processing architecture for its next-generation supercomputer. According to Fujitsu, the new supercomputer with a rule of 10 petaflop will be developed by 2012, as well as will be used as a "highly developed, high-performance, general-purpose supercomputer."

The next-generation supercomputer will use what is currently the world's best ever CPU (Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx with 8 cores, 128 gigaflops), manufactured by Fujitsu using 45-nm process technology.

The network among the systems nodes will consist of a direct-connection network with wide-band communications channels. This system design will make sure mutually power competence with huge parallel computing capacity.

As well, RIKEN plans to team up with association responsible of supporting the supercomputer operation, in array to give users of vector component with enough support.

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