SGI to Power 1.9 Petaflop Supercomputer at University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo has chosen SGI to perform advanced data analysis and simulation within its Information Technology Center. The center is one of Japan's major research and educational institutions for building, applying, and utilizing large computer systems. The new SGI system will begin operation July 1, 2016. "The SGI integrated supercomputer system for data analysis and simulation will support the needs of scientists in new fields such as genome analysis and deep learning in addition to scientists in traditional areas of computational science," said Professor Hiroshi Nakamura, director of Information Technology Center, the University of Tokyo. "The new system will further ongoing research and contribute to the development of new academic fields that combine data analysis and computational science."

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