Tokyo, July 31: Fujitsu and IBM Japan have separately received orders for supercomputers that use the free open-source Linux operating system, company officials said on Thursday.
IBM Japan is making the 1.19 billion yen ($9.9 million) supercomputer for a research centre affiliated with the trade ministry, spokesman Akihiro Shimoide said. It will deliver more than 11 trillion calculations per second.

Fujitsu will be making a supercomputer with similar powers for an education ministry research facility on a five-year contract costing 60 million yen ($499,000) a month, spokesman Kazuhiro Kikuchi said.

Both machines are less powerful than the world`s most powerful supercomputers but offer comparable capabilities at a lower price. They would carry out research on biotechnology and nanotechnology, the officials said.