Fujitsu builds supercomputer with 24 DGX-1 systems
Used in advanced intelligence projects starting in April

NVIDIA announced that 24 NVIDIA DGX-1 AI systems will be used to build Fujitsu's supercomputer.

This is the largest customer installation of the DGX-1 system, and it is expected to support deep learning research at RIKEN, Japan's largest comprehensive research institute, and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve complex challenges in healthcare, manufacturing, and public safety.

Starting this April, the RIKEN Institute will utilize this supercomputer in the Advanced Intelligence Project to accelerate artificial intelligence research in various fields, including medicine, manufacturing, healthcare, and disaster prevention.



Existing HPC architectures had limitations in meeting the standards required by AI researchers due to their low efficiency. Under these circumstances, companies like Fujitsu and clients such as the RIKEN Institute are seeking GPU-based solutions that offer superior performance with lower costs and power consumption. A single DGX-1 system is configured with eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs and an integrated software stack optimized for deep learning frameworks, providing the same level of performance as 250 existing x86 servers.

The supercomputer uses 32 Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers along with the DGX-1 system, and improves theoretical processing performance to 4 petaflops in half-precision floating-point operations.

Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said, “The DGX-1 is like a time machine for artificial intelligence researchers,” adding, “Companies, research institutes, and universities around the world are adopting the DGX-1 to join the deep learning trend, which is a core innovation of the AI revolution.”

“NVIDIA DGX-1-based systems will accelerate the realization of the latest AI technologies as well as research on next-generation AI algorithms,” said Kunisawa Arimichi, General Manager of Fujitsu’s Technical Computing Solution Unit. “Based on our extensive experience in high-performance computing development and AI research, Fujitsu plans to support R&D using DGX-1-based systems, and through this, we will contribute to creating a future where AI is utilized to solve various social problems.”