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CUSTOMER SOLUTION PROFILE
Enabling businesses and academics to speed up
innovation and become more competitive
High Performance Computing
(HPC) Wales is Wales’ national
supercomputing service, ben-
efitting both public and private
sector institutions. As host to the UK’s largest distributed
supercomputing network, HPC Wales provides businesses
and researchers with local access to world-class technology
and the support to fully utilize it.
This supercomputing infrastructure and service is unique in
the UK and is recognised as an innovative approach across
Europe. Through the cooperation of Welsh universities, the
Welsh government and Fujitsu, it offers the supercomputing
power, high-level skills training and customised support
necessary to help address global challenges such as
extreme weather, development of new materials as well as
new approaches to medical science. The service is designed
to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and answer long-
standing questions.
The Welsh government wanted to create a unified HPC
platform that would encompass multiple academic organ-
isations, allowing them to offer on-demand intensive
computational capacity to local businesses of any size.
Today, two hubs at Cardiff and Swansea are comple-
mented with a number of spoke sites around Wales, each
of which has access to thousands of Intel cores, linked by a
dedicated network delivered via the Public Sector Broad-
band Aggregation.
Through close collaboration, HPC Wales, with the help of
Fujitsu, is offering HPC capabilities to SMEs throughout the
country, enabling them to become more competitive and
bring products to market faster. They are also helping
speed up innovation, bolstering the local economy and
promoting academic resources.
“Fujitsu has been fundamental to the success of HPC
Wales. This is a technical undertaking unlike anything we
have ever done in Wales, and Fujitsu’s experience, commit-
ment and understanding have ensured that, despite some
challenges along the way, the process has been successful.”
-Professor Martyn Guest, Technical Director, HPC Wales
Nordic countries. There are a lot of large multinational compa-
nies based in the Nordic region. And our teams are going to exe-
cute plans to grow with those global clients and support them.
In India, Poland and Portugal we’ve got global delivery centers
(GDCs) and we’re continuing to build out our facilities and our
global delivery capabilities.
We’re building our experience in the Middle East and Africa, so
it’s difficult to forecast rapid growth there yet, but we’re going to
grow at the right pace, at a measured pace, taking into account
factors such as political situations and business customs.
Refer to Initiatives by Region (on page 58-59) for more information about
the EMEIA region.
Fujitsu’s Strengths
Getting Close to Customers—the Traditional
Fujitsu Approach
Fujitsu is creating a business model that enables us to execute
globally for clients in a consistent, optimal way and move fast for
our customers in a manner that differentiates us from competi-
tors. It’s in the Fujitsu DNA to make decisions close to customers.
For example, if we come across some issue while working out a
deal, we can work together with the customer to come up with a
sincerely thought out solution. Consequently, we can set our-
selves up as a long-term partner that our customers can rely on.
Another strength we have for clients whose businesses encom-
pass multiple time zones is global provision of products utilizing
high standard proprietary technologies developed through our
research and development. Under the new global matrix organi-
zation that system will be fortified, which I am convinced will
raise customer satisfaction and realize business growth.
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