To be employed in maximising the performance of the Next-Generation Supercomputer (the “K computer”)

Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe have announced the launch of the Open Petascale Libraries (OPL) project, a global collaboration initiative to develop a mathematical library that will serve as a development platform for applications running on petascale-class supercomputers. Initially involving ten partners, including universities and research institutions, the project will make the developed code publicly available in open-source form, thereby contributing to the computational science community as a whole. In addition, the output from the OPL project will be applied to help accelerate the application development for the Next-Generation Supercomputer (the “K computer”), which is scheduled to begin operation in fiscal 2012.  As a result, this project is expected to make an important contribution to a range of fields, such as the life sciences, development of new materials and sources of energy, disaster prevention and mitigation, manufacturing technologies and basic research into the origins of matter and the universe.