About the Joint Use of the Supercomputer Center
The Institute for Solid State Physics has been providing nationwide joint usage of supercomputers since 1995. Beginning with the Fujitsu VPP500/40 installed in 1995, the computers at ISSP have been updated roughly every 5 years. The SGI ICE XA (System B), introduced in July 2013, is currently in operation as the fifth generation. Two types of computers have been available since 2000: System A, which mainly performs vector calculations; and System B, which performs massively parallel scalar calculations. In addition, the FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX10 (System C), the 4.5th generation, has been in operation since April 2013 for collaborations with the K Computer.
Phase 1 (January 1995 – March 2000)
Fujitsu VPP500/40 (40CPU, 13GB, 64GFlops), icho
SGI Origin 2000 (24CPU,19GB), ume
Intel Paragon (66CPU), hikari
DEC7000/640AXP (4CPU 2GB), ginnan
Compaq ES40 x 4 (16CPU 32GB), sakura
Phase 2 (March 2000 – March 2005)
System A: Hitachi SR8000/60 model F1 (640 GB, 720 GFlops), icho
System B: SGI 2800/384 origin2000 (192GB, 230GFlops), sugi
Phase 3 (March 2005 – June 2010)
System A: Hitachi SR11000(5.8TFlops), sumire
System B: SGI Altix 3700 (7.7TFlops), itadori
Phase 4 (July 2010 – June 2015)
System A: NEC SX9 (6.6 TFlops), shii
System B: SGI Altix 8400EX (180 TFlops), kashiwa
System C: FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX10 (90.8 TFlops) (April 2013 – ), maki
*Systems A and B were shut down in March 2015.
Phase 5 (July 2015 – June 2020)
System B: SGI ICE XA (2.6 PFLOPS), sekirei
System C: FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX10 (90.8 TFlops) (- March 2017), maki
System C: HPE SGI8600 (774 TFlops) (January 2018 -), enaga
Phase 6 (October 2020 – present)
System B: Dell PowerEdge C6525/R940 (6.9 PFLOPS), ohtaka
System C: HPE SGI8600 (774 TFlops) (January 2018 – December 2021), enaga
System C: HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10 Plus/HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus (0.973 PFLOPS) (June 2022 -), kugui