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New NEC Supercomputer

By admin ⋅ October 29, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

During the past week NEC announced the availability of a new system supercomputer able to compete with the giants of the sector represented by IBM and Cray. The new system, whose name is SX-9, will be officially revealed next month at the ‘iExpo2007 in Reno, Nevada.

According to statements made by the new NEC supercomputer is capable of supporting a computing power peak of 839 Teraflops (839 trillion floating point operations per second). The footprint is comparable to that of a kiosk for photographs and the cost of rent is about 26 thousand dollars a month.

The SX-9 has been designed to meet the needs in scientific computing and simulation of complex systems. NEC has sold more than 1,000 supercomputers of earlier versions belonging to the line SX and hopes to place at least 700 units of SX-9 systems by 2010.

SX-9 is an interesting crux for NEC with the opportunity to regain the top positions of the TOP500 list, after the system EarthSimulator NEC, the top of the league between 2002 and 2004, has slipped until the twentieth position. The ranking, updated since last June, sees the first place the BlueGene / L IBM, capable of computing power peak of “just” 367 Teraflops.

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