OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced that the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) has selected Fujitsu's cloud service for analytical simulations, the FUJITSU Technical Computing Solution TC Cloud (TC Cloud), with the aim of accelerating research into new drugs using in silico drug discovery techniques.

The Fujitsu TC Cloud service is run on a system comprised of FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX250 S2/CX270 S2 x86 servers that deliver over 230 teraflops of computing performance from more than 10,000 CPU cores and over 250 teraflops of GPGPU acceleration, making it one of Japan's largest systems.

This service is scheduled to commence from January 1, 2014. As one of Japan's largest cloud-based HPC services, it is expected to provide a platform for Japan's drug discovery research.

As a cloud-based service, TC Cloud offers a large-scale computing environment without the power consumption restrictions that otherwise would be faced by the university. It also provides the same level of convenience as an on-campus research environment. Moreover, the level of computing resources can be flexibly upgraded in the future as the scale of the research expands.

As exemplified by this cloud service provided to RCAST, Fujitsu intends to expand application of TC Cloud in the field of drug discovery as part of its initiatives to promote health and wellbeing in society through the use of ICT.