Customer Solution Profiles The following profiles offer a glimpse at how some of our IT systems and solutions are benefiting businesses, institutions and people in their everyday lives.  Along with the diffusion and increasing performance of Linux servers in recent years, Linux cluster systems – multiple Linux servers linked in a single high-speed network – have been adopted by universities and research institutions throughout Japan and abroad for use as supercomputers. functions of genes and proteins in biotechnology, the system is expected to make major contributions to advanced research and development and support Japan’s position as leading innovator in science and technology. Tokai University School of Medicine WorldGLYPH<213>s Fastest Quantum Chemical Computational Techniques and Software Speed Drug Development Riken JapanGLYPH<213>s Highest Performance Linux Cluster System Powers Biotech Research Genomic drug design can be described as the process of discovering target molecules – and therefore new drug candidates – that control the abnormal behavior of proteins related to diseases. Traditionally, this process of discovery involved an enormous amount of time and sacrifice, requiring the use of actual tissues and cells, or numerous test animals. Seeking to help new drug developers overcome these hurdles, we developed new techniques and software enabling the world’s fastest quantum chemical computations based on the molecular orbital method. Working together with Tokai University’s Since March of 2004, Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as Riken, has begun operating a supercomputer system that uses as its core a Linux cluster system built by Fujitsu. This is the highest performance Linux cluster system in Japan and represents the first adoption by a large-scale Japanese computing center of a Linux cluster core for its main system. It is considered a model case and has received considerable attention both in Japan and abroad. Slated for use in the analysis of the structures and JapanGLYPH<213>s highest performance Linux cluster system is powering biotech research. 10