Tokyo Institute of Technology Partners with DDN on TSUBAME3.0 to Build Forward- Looking, AI and Big Data Computing Infrastructure
A Shared Vision of the Future of HPC Drives this Successful, Multi-Generation Collaboration SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 1 7 , 2017 – DataDirect Networks (DDN®) today announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has selected DDN as its strategic storage infrastructure provider for the new TSUBAME3.0 supercomputing system. The innovative design of the TSUBAME3.0 is a major step along an evolutionary path toward a fundamental convergence of data and compute. TSUBAME3.0 breaks with many of the conventions of the world’s top supercomputers, incorporating elements and design points from containerization, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data, and it exhibits extreme innovation in the area of power consumption and system efficiency. “As we run out the clock on Moore’s law, performance enhancements will increasingly be driven by improvements in data access times that come from faster storage media and networks, innovative data acc