Bristol based ClearSpeed Technology, a specialist company designing technology for high performance computing, today announced it had help to break supercomputing records at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
A supercomputer leads the world in terms of processing capacity and are used for calculation-intensive tasks such as weather forecasting, climate research and molecular modeling. Major universities, military agencies and scientific research laboratories are heavy users.
The Tokyo supercomputer cluster comprises over 655 servers. The ClearSpeed accelerator technology increases the cluster’s overall performance by 24 percent while adding only one percent to the overall power consumption. This means the Institute is now the number one supercomputing infrastructure in Asia and becomes the first accelerated cluster in the Top500 which tracks the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems.
