The K supercomputer in Kobe has been kept busy since it went into full-scale operation in September last year, reflecting the high expectations of its advanced simulation capacity.
More than 100 projects using the supercomputer are currently under way. While K is preferentially assigned to calculations for national strategies promoted by the government, there were also some 300 applications for its general or corporate use.
Developed jointly by Fujitsu Ltd. and the government-backed Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, K is expected to change the development process of automobiles in connection with aerodynamic simulation.