1. Pioneering the Computing & Communication Services for Academic Studies
R.I.I.T.: Research Institute for Information Technology, Kyushu University
"Pioneering the Computing and Communication Services for Academic Studies"
This presentation gives you an overview of:
R. I. I. T.:
Research Institute for Information Technology,
Kyushu University.

2. What is R.I.I.T.? Research Institute for Information Technology
NOT a "pure" institute.
Our mission includes:
high-performance computing services;
network services for the university;
other IT-related campus-wide services;
advances studies for the future of these services.
R. I. I. T. stands for Research Institute for Information Technology.
Since the name "institute" implies, is this just a large group of scientists and the supporting employees?
No!
Though it is related various aspects of information technology, such as high-performance computing and network,
our mission includes both IT-related services and advanced studies for the future of these services.
You are now about to see the cutting-edge activities of R. I. I. T.

3. HPC services Nearly 40 years of academic computing services
formerly known as "Computer Center"
One of the seven national supercomputer centers of Japan
which offer HPC services to researchers in universities and colleges all over Japan. 
A wide variety of research fields:
fluid dynamics, geophysics, structural mechanics, nuclear physics, molecular science, and materials engineering, etc.
First, let's take a look at our HPC services.
R. I. I. T. is a newly-established institute, but it has a long history, nearly 40 years, of academic computing services.
Since the early days of the Computer Center,
it has been one of the seven national supercomputer centers in Japan.
Our HPC services contribute to various academic research fields such as:
fluid dynamics, geophysics, structural mechanics, nuclear physics, and so on.

4. Current Systems Lineup
Fujitsu
PRIMEQUEST580
Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200S3 cluster
Hitachi　SR11000 J1/K2
IBM eServer p5 model 595
13.1TFLOPS
#Cores: 2,048
Memory：4.0TB
18.4 TFLOPS
#Cores: 1,536
Memory：3.0TB
3.0TFLOPS
#Cores: 368
Memory：2.9TB
3.2TFLOPS
#Cores: 416
Memory：1.9TB
Itanium2 1.6GHz
(dual) ×32
Xeon 3.0GHz (dual) ×2
POWER5/5+ 1.9/2.3 GHz (dual)×8
POWER5 1.9GHz (dual)×16/32
#Users: 349
#Users: 117
#Users: 122
#Users: 313
Disk: 250TB (data) + 250TB (backup)
Disk: 20.7TB
Disk：51TB
Our current HPC system consists of:
Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST five-eighty and PRIMERGY RX two-hundred S three cluster;
Hitachi SR eleven thousand, and;
IBM "E" server "P" five.
Although each system has its own sales points, which we are very much proud of,
we hope you can find the details of individual systems at our posters in the booth, later.
(As of Oct. 2007)