Fujitsu works with Institute for Cosmic Ray Research

System to be used in neutrino research using Super-Kamiokande detector for observation of cosmic particles

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has won an order from the Kamioka Observatory of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo in an open tendering, to supply a new data analysis system that analyzes the structure of outer space by utilizing a cosmic-particle observation detector known as Super-Kamiokande.

The new system will accumulate and analyze data regarding neutrinos, based on neutrino observation data from Super-Kamiokande.

The new system will consist mainly of the following from Fujitsu: a PC cluster of PRIMERGY BX620 S3 blade servers, a PRIMEQUEST mission-critical Intel Architecture (IA) server, the ETERNUS storage system, and Parallelnavi SRFS for Linux version 1.0, a high-speed distribution file system. The PC cluster is designed to achieve computing performance levels that are 35 times greater than the existing system (see note). The new system is scheduled to be operational in March 2007 - Fujitsu.