Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/25/fujitsu_caas_release/

Fujitsu has opened up access to its Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) portfolio along with an Accelerator Program to help develop use cases of its CaaS platform.

Available initially to the Japanese market, the Fujitsu CaaS portfolio will provide high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure, Fujitsu's Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealer, and technical consulting services to help customers implement applications using the cloud-based platforms. The HPC platform will be the same architecture as the #2 ranked "Fugaku" supercomputer at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, which is is built with the homegrown Arm-based A64FX processor.

The IT giant first announced its CaaS portfolio in April, saying it would come to the Japanese market first, with a global rollout to international regions including Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas to follow. Fujitsu now says the global availability will come "in fiscal 2023," which implies sometime after the first quarter of next year, in line with the start of its new financial year.

Also available via CaaS HPC is an Intel-based server cluster, plus a second cluster that adds Nvidia GPUs to provide the extra compute power for simulations and AI applications. Fujitsu does not identify the servers making up the clusters, but these are likely to be its own PRIMERGY systems. Another part of the CaaS portfolio is Fujitsu's Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealer technology, which like other quantum annealing systems is designed to find the optimal solution to complex problems but is not a true general-purpose quantum computer.

Fujitsu launches HPC and Digital Annealer cloud services

Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year

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