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10
Customer Solution Profiles
Riken
Japan’s Highest Performance Linux Cluster
System Powers Biotech Research
Along with the diffusion and increasing performance
of Linux servers in recent years, Linux cluster systems
– multiple Linux servers linked in a single high-speed
network – have been adopted by universities and
research institutions throughout Japan and abroad for
use as supercomputers.
Since March of 2004, Japan's Institute of Physical and
Chemical Research, known as Riken, has begun
operating a supercomputer system that uses as its core
a Linux cluster system built by Fujitsu. This is the
highest performance Linux cluster system in Japan and
represents the first adoption by a large-scale Japanese
computing center of a Linux cluster core for its main
system. It is considered a model case and has
received considerable attention both in Japan and
abroad.
Slated for use in the analysis of the structures and
The following profiles offer a glimpse at how some of our IT systems and solutions are benefiting businesses,
institutions and people in their everyday lives.
Japan’s highest performance Linux cluster system is powering biotech research.
functions of genes and proteins in biotechnology, the
system is expected to make major contributions to
advanced research and development and support Japan’s
position as leading innovator in science and technology.
Tokai University School of Medicine
World’s Fastest Quantum Chemical Computational
Techniques and Software Speed Drug Development
Genomic drug design can be described as the process
of discovering target molecules – and therefore new
drug candidates – that control the abnormal behavior
of proteins related to diseases. Traditionally, this
process of discovery involved an enormous amount of
time and sacrifice, requiring the use of actual tissues
and cells, or numerous test animals.
Seeking to help new drug developers overcome
these hurdles, we developed new techniques and
software enabling the world’s fastest quantum
chemical computations based on the molecular orbital
method. Working together with Tokai University’s