"Silicon Graphics announced that the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) will introduce an SGI Altix supercomputer as its new core computation system to assist in developing leading energy systems.

As a result of a competitive bidding process, Fujitsu Limited in cooperation with SGI Japan will deliver to JAERI the new SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 model which is based on 2,048 Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Linux operating environment and over 13 terabytes of memory - the world's largest memory capacity. The system is scheduled to fully operate at the end of March 2005.

JAERI has been introducing the highest standard large-scale computers to meet the needs of scientific computation in nuclear energy research and development. In response to an expected rapid increase in computation demand by large-scale simulation research in the areas of nuclear energy and nuclear fusion, JAERI will integrate the systems housed at Tokai Research Establishment and Naka Fusion Research Establishment, and achieve more than 10 times the processing power."

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