OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced that it has completed construction of a new computer system for the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo. This x86 cluster system, forming the backbone for ICRR's research on cosmic rays, began operation on January 1, 2014.

The new system will store and analyze observational data on cosmic rays, which include protons, gamma rays, and neutrinos, and will be used for ICRR's various domestic and international joint research projects in astrophysics and particle physics.

The computation server is an x86 cluster comprised of 136 FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX250 S2 servers, acting in tandem with a high-speed distributed file system of 33 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX80 S2 units running the FEFS file system for speed, reliability, and scalability.

Integer-math performance of the computation server is rated at 96,426 using the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark, about ten times the performance of the previous system. It also boasts a file server capacity of 4.4 petabytes, which is roughly 3.2 times more capacity than the previous system, and has a data-transfer speed of 18 GB/s, an approximately 30-fold improvement.

This Fujitsu system will support the KAGRA Project and contribute to advances in other cutting-edge research in astrophysics and particle physics.