OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu Limited and Shinshu University today announced Shinshu University's recent decision to deploy a Fujitsu supercomputer system in its R&D facility to newly develop innovative water-filtration and water-circulation systems.

The new system, set to go online in July 2014, will comprise a cluster of 16 FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX200 S8 x86 servers, and a single FUJITSU Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX10.

Shinshu University plans to use the new system to move forward on R&D into revolutionary new water filtration and circulation systems that use nanocarbon and other materials, so as to ensure an adequate supply of water for people around the world.

To develop an innovative nanocarbon membrane, Shinshu University will use a Fujitsu system that comprises an x86 cluster of PRIMERGY RX200 S8 servers and a PRIMEHPC FX10 supercomputer. This system will be capable of performing complex nanocarbon membrane analyses and simulations that had been difficult with previous levels of processing performance. In addition, the applications that the PRIMEHPC FX10 run are compatible with the K computer(4), which means that as simulations grow in scale, they can be run on the K computer, as well.