Fujitsu installs world's largest private enterprise supercomputer system for Toyota Motor Corp.; Fujitsu VPP5000 Series HPC Server to help Toyota slash new vehicle development time.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-9 March 2000-FUJITSU: Fujitsu installs world's largest private enterprise supercomputer system for Toyota Motor Corp.; Fujitsu VPP5000 Series HPC Server to help Toyota slash new vehicle development time (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09032000 Tokyo, Japan -- Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has received an order from Toyota Motor Corporation for a multi- processor VPP5000 Series HPC Server -- the world's fastest vector supercomputer -- which it has installed and will be fully operational later this month.

The Fujitsu VPP5000 system selected by Toyota comprises 30 vector processing elements (PEs)*1 and has a theoretical maximum performance of 288 gigaflops (GFLOPS)*2. With 320 gigabytes of memory installed, it will be...