It's a great pleasure for K Computer to be ranked number one in the world on the top
five list.
This achievement owes to various efforts and contribution made by all people who are involved
in this challengeable project and all the people who supported this project.
And also, I'd like to express many thanks for the best efforts and contribution made
by Fujitsu Group and its related company, which are in charge of development and manufacturing.
And I cannot forget one more thing.
On the occasion, when a big earthquake and tsunami attacked east of Japan, several companies
and factories in which a part and components of K Computer are produced and manufactured
suffered from the disasters, the installation and system operation had to be stopped worldwide.
But I should also express many thanks for those companies and factories.
But still, the system is under development, not yet completed, so we should continue to
try to make the best efforts to complete the system by the end of June next year.
Thank you very much.
This is indeed an honor to be back in this position again.
It is in Fujitsu DNA to constantly challenge ourselves and produce innovative technology.
Our history of high performance computer development stretched back over 30 years.
Our challenge and effort included in our DNA have enabled us to achieve 8.16 petaflops
and take first place.
I would like to emphasize the fact that the K Computer is being developed and manufactured
in Japan.
As you all know, Mr. Watan mentioned, on March 11th, Japan was struck by a tragic disaster.
More than 20,000 people were killed, who were still unaccounted for.
What you may not know is that many suppliers with a K Computer are located in the devastated
area.
Despite their losses, they have suffered.
They have all will hold their commitment to ensuring their success with a K Computer.
I would like to thank not only these suppliers, but everyone who has been involved in this
project.
Furthermore, I hope that the K Computer's achievement will stand as encouragement to
all Japanese people during these challenging times.
Maybe after the K Computer is completed, can we expect it to yield great scientific
breakthrough that will help the world?
Once again, thank you very much.
May I now ask you to receive the certificates?
Thank you gentlemen, congratulations to this big success.
Now we have other top 500 certificates to give, and I ask Horst to come and make the
awarding of the number one in the US.
Horst, please enter the stage.
Good morning.
My name is Horst Simon of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and it's my great pleasure
to honor and recognize the number one system in the United States.
It's probably not a big surprise this time that the system was the number one system
in the US and also the number one system in the world since 2009.
I would like to recognize my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Labs and at Cray Research
with its continued accomplishment.
I'd like to add that the true value of the system is not really necessarily reflected
by being number one of the top 500 list or number one in the US, but what you get out
of science in the next two or three years, and the JAGRA system at Oak Ridge has shown
a truly remarkable set of scientific accomplishments over the last two and three years in terms
of Gordon Bell Prize finalists and award winners, and in terms of sustained pedophile performance
on more than half a dozen applications.
So with that track record, I'd like to say congratulations to Oak Ridge National Labs
and Cray Research.
I'd like to ask Jeff Vetter and Barry Boulding to come up and to receive the award.
Thank you very much.
Cray is proud that for the last two and a half years, the Cray XT5, affectionately known
as JAGRAR, has been one of the most productive systems in the world for science.
And you can't do that without also partnering with a great customer.
And we congratulate Oak Ridge today for the scientific work that they've done, the contributions
to science, to open science, that they've made over the last two and a half years.
Thank you.
Thank you, and I'll just add to that that the partnership with Cray over the past seven
years has been fantastic.
We've had multiple Gordon Bell Prizes, have had multiple Linpack Awards.
I would also like to thank the people at Oak Ridge, the hundreds of people that keep the
system up and running, and the application scientists that use it every day.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you a lot.
And now we are coming to the number one system in Europe, and I ask the top 500, or the JAGR,
to make the awarding, please.
Well, thank you so much, Hans.
I'd like to take this opportunity to present the award for the number one system in Europe.
This award is not a surprise.
The Terra 100 from Bull at the CEA has been on the top 500 since November of 2010.
It's a very efficient system.
I think it achieves about 84 percent of the theoretical peak.
It's a system which has 138,000 cores and achieves just a little bit over one petaflop
in terms of performance.
So I'd like to award this certificate for number one to...
I don't have the certificates.
No, no, I don't have the certificates.
I'd like to award this to...
To Jean Gunnar, and also Pascal Barbellosi.
So congratulations on your achievements.
Right?
Okay.
Hello, everybody.
Thank you.
Okay.
Hello, everybody.
Well, today is a smart day for Bull and for me, personally, for two reasons.
The first one is that we are receiving this award for Terra 100 for the second time, and
this is very good news.
And the second one is that it is my first anniversary at Bull after 25 years working
for my American colleagues.
So thank you for this prize, for this anniversary.
Thank you very much.
On behalf of the group Bull team, HPC team, I really want to thank a lot, first, the Bull
teams that allow the system to be designed and installed and put in production.
Of course, also, I want to thank our technology partner, Intel, of course, DDN, LSI, well,
I should say now NetApp, and Melanox.
And of course, I want to thank our customer, CEA, because without the support, the vision,
and the passion of CEA, this system will have never been designed and installed.
I want to stress the fact that the joint R&D efforts that has been conducted with CEA,
in order to design these proven multipurpose production systems, has allowed us, has been
a key success factor in the development of Bull, because, as I am talking to you, we
are currently developing and manufacturing two new systems, two new petaflopic systems
that we will install during the year 2011.
These two systems are one in France for Gen-C. This is a 1.6 petaflop system.
It will boost the European research and reaffirming the French commitment as part of the price
initiative.
And the second one is for fusion for energy.
It will be installed in Japan, in Rokasho, providing modeling and simulation capacities
planned as part of the broader approach with ITAR.
So a lot of developments are ongoing, and again, thank you for this award and this price.
We are very proud to receive it.
While on behalf of CEA, I want to thank you, Jack, and thank you, Professor Moyer, for
this second award for R&D, for me, also personally important.
Six years ago, in Heidelberg, at IECO5, announcing the contract to build for Terra10, I told
you, I gave you a vision that EU was back in this HPC world, so strategic for our economy,
our society, and our defense.
Today, with this award, for the second time, this award shows that EU is definitely back.
We have not only reconquered the capacity of designing these fabulous machines, but
like it was said, selling, having in order today two of our petaflop machines, Bühl
has begun to reconquer what should be in the future a fair share of the world market for
Europe.
This is good for Europe economy and for Europe employment.
Our success is based on two principles, use COTS, thanks to Intel, and use open source.
Using this principle, we are now working with all labs doing R&D in this field in Europe
on the scientific breakthrough that will make the future of HPC possible.
With our friends of Barcelona, Yulich, Munich, we will support in the next months an initiative
from UNHPC industry to set up an ETP in order to face the gigantic challenges for the next
generation of computers.
Thank you.