Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, a subsidiary of the renowned Japanese multinational IT services and equipment firm, in partnership with University of Toronto, has reportedly announced that it has successfully developed a novel parallel search tech to help attain megabit-class performance for problems that are large in scale, hitting a crucial technical milestone that extends the capabilities of its Digital Annealer.

The company’s Digital Annealer is an innovative computing architecture that effectively resolves combinatorial optimization problems that are too complex and large for traditional technologies.

The existing, second-gen Digital Annealer Cloud Service, which has been available to company customers since May of 2018, offers performance at approximately 8,192 bits to provide a highly powerful tool for solving their optimization problems across fields including finance, logistics, manufacturing, and medicine.

As applications within a plethora of industrial avenues continue to grow, a need is increasingly emerging for a technology that can effectively handle problems that are of even larger in scale, to solve a wider range of real-world, complex problems.

Keeping this challenge in mind, the Japanese enterprise has successfully showcased the first practical solution in the world that is on the one megabit scale for an Ising machine through its Digital Annealer, effectively applying a novel parallel search tech.

For the uninitiated, an ising machine is essentially a machine that can resolve combinatorial optimization problems that are represented by ising model.

The features of the newly developed technology are as follows:

1). Adaptive parallel search technology designed for solving large-scale problems.

2). Cooperative Search Technology within Multiple Server Parallel.

Now, Fujitsu plans to apply the novel technology it the Digital Annealer to solve numerous real world combinatorial optimization problems on a large-scale, helping streamline the development of novel drugs, strategies for solving traffic congestion throughout urban areas, nationwide delivery and transportation plans, and also work shift planning that is suitable for this new-normal era.

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