Artifact Details

Title

System board for K computer

Catalog Number

102807273

Type

Physical Object

Description

The object is a large circuit board in a metal enclosure. The circuit board has many SIMMS and other chips that are covered by copper water jackets. This module is part of the RIKEN K computer, a massively parrallel supercomputer that was once the fastest computer in the world. The K computer was installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Japan and operated from 2012 - 2019.

Date

Circa 2011

Manufacturer

Fujitsu

Place Manufactured

Japan

Identifying Numbers

Other number CA07170-D322/PT110409YC BARCODE ON THE FRONT.

Dimensions

overall: 18 1/4 in x 2 in x 22 in

Credit

Gift of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science

Lot Number

X9544.2021