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Fujitsu has classified its framework for advanced research into
the three categories below, with a view to achieving group-wide
optimization from a global standpoint. Through this framework
Fujitsu will carry out strategic R&D for the future of the Fujitsu
Group, align business segment strategies with research strate-
gies, and enhance resource shifts in response to changes in
Fujitsu’s business portfolio. Fujitsu will employ a top-down
approach to setting research themes, and will conduct strategic
research investment.
1. Core Strategic Themes: Technologies essential to the
medium- to long-term future of the Fujitsu Group
2. Business Strategic Themes: Short- to medium-term tech-
nologies that business segments have committed to
commercializing
3. Seeds-oriented Themes: Budding technologies not specific
to current businesses, and medium- to long-term technolo-
gies targeting unknown domains
In particular, Fujitsu is promoting the following five Core
Strategic Themes.
Realizing a Human Centric Intelligent Society
To make the Human Centric Intelligent Society—creating
new value in the real world through Human Centric IT—a
reality, Fujitsu is researching and developing advanced
technologies along two axes—“convergence,” linking
customers from different sectors together through big
data spanning myriad industries, and “vertical integra-
tion” for overall optimization.
Topics
(1) Human Centric Computing
Fujitsu will correlate, combine and analyze data from real-world
applications with data from specific industry applications, to
realize convergence services that generate value.
(2) Intelligent Society
Fujitsu will help create social infrastructure that solves increas-
ingly complex social problems and transcends individual corpo-
rate and industry barriers, to contribute new value and
knowledge to societies and corporations.
(3) Cloud Fusion
Through effortless connections between clouds, and with existing
systems, Fujitsu will link and share information to expand the
fields for applying ICT, thereby creating new markets.
(4) Green Datacenters
By optimizing power supply and cooling technologies, and
employing optical networks, Fujitsu will build power-saving
datacenters that realize high cost-performance as well.
(5) Manufacturing Innovation
Fujitsu will provide advanced technologies that can contribute
toward innovative manufacturing, to support Fujitsu’s business
and to function as a core for aligning the Fujitsu Group’s product
manufacturing.
2 Commendations for Science and Technology (Development Category)
from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
of Japan
5 members of the Fujitsu Group were honored by Japan’s Minister of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in fiscal 2011 with Commendations for
Science and Technology: Development Category for the “development of speech
quality improvement technology for mobile phones,” with 1 other member
honored for “development of supercomputer core technologies and relevant
human resources.”
Awarded the Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) Chairman Award
at the Fiscal 2011 Persons of Merit Awards in Business–Academia–
Government Collaboration
At the 10th Conference for the Promotion of Collaboration among Business–Aca-
demia–Government (hosted annually by the Cabinet Office and other government
ministries of Japan), Professor Emeritus Hiroshi Ishiwara of the Tokyo Institute of
Technology and 2 individuals from the Fujitsu Group received the Keidanren (Japan
Business Federation) Chairman Award in the Fiscal 2011 Persons of Merit Awards in
Business–Academia–Government Collaboration for the research and development of
nonvolatile memory FRAM and its commercialization.
Awards and Prizes
“K computer” Awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Ranked No. 1 in Four
Benchmarks at the HPC Challenge Awards
A research group comprised of RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, the University of
Tokyo, and Fujitsu announced research results obtained using the K computer—jointly
developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu—at SC11 (the International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis), receiving the ACM
Gordon Bell Prize, Peak-Performance. In addition, the research group received
top-ranking in all 4(*)HPC Challenge benchmarks used for evaluating the overall
performance of supercomputers.
(*) HPC Challenge benchmarks:
1) Global HPL (operating speed in solving large-scale simultaneous linear equations);
2) Global Random Access (random memory access performance in parallel processing);
3) EP STREAM (Triad) per system (memory access speed under multiple loads);
4) Global FFT (total performance of Fast Fourier Transform)
Advanced R&D Strategic Direction in Fiscal 2012 (April 2012 – March 2013)
Convergence
Cloud
New value New businesses
Vertical integration
echnology
Energy Safety
Food
Environment Health
Population
Transportation
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