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Fujitsu kicks off the launch of its Computing as a Service offering

Fujitsu has opened up access to its portfolio of Computing as a Service (CaaS) products.as well as to a accelerator program to help develop use cases for them. Initially they will be available only to customers in Japan, although throughout the company’s fiscal year 2023 they will begin to reach other markets, including Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas.

Among the services that Fujitsu will provide as CaaS is the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructurethe fujitsu quantum-inspired digital annealer Y consulting services technique to help customers develop applications using their cloud-based platforms.

The high-performance computing platform that Fujitsu provides through its CaaS portfolio will have the same architecture as the Fugaku supercomputer, built on the locally developed A64FX processor, currently the second most powerful in the world and located at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan.

In addition, an Intel-based server cluster will also be available through its CaaS HPC offering, as well as a second that features Nvidia GPUs. In both cases, the clusters are intended to offer extra computing power to Fujitsu customers for simulations and AI applications. Fujitsu hasn’t confirmed which servers it will use for the clusters, but it’s likely to be its Primergy systems.

As for Fujitsu’s digital annealer, which will be offered in the package, and which is inspired by quantum computing, it is designed, like other similar systems, to help discover the best solution to complex problems, but it is not about a general purpose quantum computer. Among its current users is Toyota, which uses it to optimize vehicle production processes in its factories.

On the other hand, Fujitsu’s Accelerator Program for CaaS aims to develop use cases for its computing platform as a service, and to do so with startups both in Japan and abroad. These use cases will span sectors such as Web 3.0, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics. In addition, Fujitsu will interact with organizations around the world that serve as its support, and that act as a connection hub between startups and companies.

Among the startups that are already participating in the program is Grid Inc., which specializes in the development of digital twins and Artificial Intelligence technology. Also Kashika, which develops HPC visualization systems. There are also several that are developing applications for the metaverse.

For now, it is unknown what it will cost to use Fujitsu’s portfolio of computing products as a service, although everything indicates that it will be offered through a monthly “HPC budget”, from which the computing resources can be consumed by means of a monthly pay per use system. Apparently, there will be three pricing plans for this budget, based on various requirements, such as storage capacity.

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