Supercomputer Oakforest-PACS Operated Jointly by the University of Tsukuba and The University of Tokyo Ranked 1st in IO-500

The Supercomputing Conference held in Denver, Colorado on November 15 announced that the storage system of Oakforest-PACS, massively parallel cluster-type supercomputer built by Fujitsu and operated by the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC) took first place in the IO-500 list. JCAHPC is a research center jointly managed by the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo and the Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

A storage system is a whole system including a server, data storage, and network connections. The storage performance plays an important role both in large-scale simulation and big data or AI-based calculations.