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TSUBAME (Tokyo-tech Supercomputer and Ubiquitously Accessible Massstorage Environment) is a new supercomputer installed at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, on April 1st, 2006, and as of 2007 facilitating over 85 Teraflops of peak compute power with acceleration, 22 Terabytes of memory, and 1.6 Petabytes of online disk storage, ”Fat Node” as well as fast parallel interconnect-architectural principles based on traditional supercomputers. TSUBAME became the fastest and largest supercomputer in Asia in terms of performance, memory and storage capacity etc., starting from the 38.18 Teraflops performance (7th overall) for the June 2006 Top500 announcement, and taking the fastest in Asia crown for 3 consecutive Top500s in a row (currently at 48.88 Teraflops). At the same time, being PC architecture-based, TSUBAME, being a large collection of PC servers, allows for offering much broader services than traditional supercomputers resulting in a much wider user base, including incubation of novice students. We term such architectural and operational property of TSUBAME as “Everybody’s Supercomputer”, as opposed to traditional supercomputers with very limited number of users, thus making their financial justifications increasingly difficult.
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Matsuoka, S. (2007). The TSUBAME Cluster Experience a Year Later, and onto Petascale TSUBAME 2.0. In: Cappello, F., Herault, T., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_5
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