Asia Pulse Businesswire via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO, Jan 9 Asia Pulse - Itochu Techno-Science Corp. (TSE:4739), or CTC, Sun Microsystems KK and Hitachi Ltd. (TSE:6501) have delivered a powerful genome analysis server system to the University of Tokyo.
Installed in the university's Human Genome Analysis Center in the Institute of Medical Science, the system is built from eight large-scale Sun Fire 15K Unix servers and two midsize servers for a total of 788 central processing units. Capable of processing data at a rate of 1.5 tera-FLOPS, it is the largest server system for genome analysis in Japan.
Hitachi will be responsible for overall system operation and management. CTC installed the networking equipment and will provide maintenance services. Sun supplied the servers and will provide technical support.
The three companies plan to leverage the experience gained from this order to cultivate the market for powerful computer systems for genome analysis.