Sun Builds Japan's Most Powerful Supercomputer for Japanese "MIT"

The Tokyo Institute of Technology - better known as Tokyo Tech wanted to establish a cost-efficient supercomputer grid environment to support advanced research. Provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources to scientists and students and incubate a future generation of world-class researchers by ensuring all students had access to extremely powerful computing resources. When Tokyo Tech set out to build the largest supercomputer in Japan, it considered proposals from a number of different vendors. Only Sun's proposal offered the high computing power required, combined with the cost-efficiency and flexibility of a grid architecture.