The supercomputer Fugaku has managed to maintain its top position in the high-performance computing rankings such as HPCG and Graph500 BFS, as well as the fourth spot in the TOP500 and HPL-MxP rankings. HPCG is a performance ranking of computational methods frequently used in real-world applications, and the Graph500 ranks systems based on their performance in graph analysis, an important element in data-intensive workloads.
The first place in Graph500 was achieved by a collaboration between RIKEN, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Fixstars Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and Fujitsu. This time, they scored 166.029 gigaTEPS with Fugaku’s 152,064 nodes, representing a 27.162 gigaTEPS improvement in performance compared to the previous measurement.
The other results were obtained this time with Fugaku’s full allocation of 158,976 nodes distributed across 432 racks. In HPCG, it achieved 16.00 petaflops. In TOP500, it reached a LINPACK score of 442.01 petaflops, and in HPL-MxP, it scored 2,000 exaflops.
Fugaku has been producing impressive results in various fields, including life sciences, disaster prevention and mitigation, energy, manufacturing, basic science, and socio-economic applications since its trial use began in April 2020 and shared use in March 2021.
Building on the superior technology that made Fugaku possible, Fujitsu is developing FUJITSU-MONAKA, an Arm architecture CPU that achieves high performance, energy efficiency, reliability, and ease of use. Additionally, Fujitsu participated in a joint research project on the development of Fugaku-LLM, a large-scale language model trained with Fugaku. Fugaku-LLM is a high-performance model with excellent linguistic capability in Japanese, and it is exceptionally secure and transparent because it is trained on data from the associated organization. Use cases are expected to include the next generation of innovative research and business development. Fujitsu has started offering Fugaku-LLM through the Fujitsu Research Portal, allowing users to test Fujitsu’s advanced technologies for free.
In the future, Fujitsu will continue to advance the technology cultivated through the development of Fugaku and contribute to promoting its use for a variety of real-world use cases and challenges.