SX-9
World's Fastest Vector Supercomputer: NEC SX-9 Video
Sat, 2007-10-27 18:05
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Following the announcement of the new NEC SX-9, the following video was posted with and introduction to the new system and an interview with NEC about the system.
NEC SX-9 supercomputer is world's fastest at 839 TFLOPS
Sat, 2007-10-27 15:41
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NEC has announced the NEC SX-9 claiming it to be the fastest vector computer, with single core speeds of up to 102.4 GFLOPS and up to 1.6TFLOPS on a single node incorporating multiple CPUs.
If the performance of the SX-9 is sustained during “official” benchmarking, it will topple Blue Gene/L from the top of the list. Three years ago the NEC-built Earth Simulator was ranked the world's fastest supercomputer but that machine was surpassed by an IBM computer and since has dropped to 20th position in the current Top 500 list. SX-9 achieves a theoretical maximum peak performance of 839 TFLOPS. That's more than double what IBM BlueGene/L machine at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory currently has.