Japan Electric Power Development Corp. purchases nCUBE massively parallel system; Sale is one of four U.S.-manufactured supercomputers sold to Japanese government this year.FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1994--nCUBE Wednesday announced that the Japan Electric Power Development Corp. (EPDC EPDC Electric Power Development Corporation (Japan) EPDC Expected Peak Day Concentration EPDC Education Policy and Data Center EPDC Electrical Power Distribution and Control EPDC Economic Planning & Development Committee ) has purchased an nCUBE massively parallel See MPP. processing (MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. ) computer for its electric power simulation program. The EPDC, an affiliate organization of Japan's MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (通商産業省 Tsūsho-sangyō-shō or MITI) was one of the most powerful agencies in the Japanese government. ), is responsible for developing, constructing and maintaining electric power plants and power lines in accordance with Japan's national energy policy. The nCUBE system will be used to implement a new electric power system simulator for large-scale electric power systems. The nCUBE computer will be installed in December 1994. The purchase of the 128-processor nCUBE 2S M10 system by the EPDC marks the fourth contract awarded to a U.S. supercomputer company by the Japanese government this year. Additionally, the system is the fifth nCUBE MPP computer purchased by a Japanese organization to run electric power system simulations. Today's electric power systems have become extremely large and complex, and safety and reliability requirements have increased dramatically. By using multiple processors executing tasks in parallel, the nCUBE computer can run power system simulation that results in more efficient energy distribution planning and fault analysis. "Electric power simulation is a computing challenge that is virtually impossible to address with traditional computing approaches," said Michael Meirer, president and chief executive officer for nCUBE. "The nCUBE MPP computer is ideal for the parallel nature of power simulation, providing economical performance that can be adapted to an extremely wide variety of power simulation tasks." An electric power system contains a vast number of electrical devices that are densely interconnected by electric power lines. Using the nCUBE massively parallel computer, each device in a power system is assigned to an nCUBE processor, which performs in a local simulation. The result of the many simulations by multiple processors will be used to efficiently monitor real-life behavior of a given electric power system. Incorporating 128 processors and 1.4 GBytes of main memory, the nCUBE 2S M10 delivers nearly 2,000 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. and more than 500 MFLOPS See megaFLOPS. 1. (unit) MFLOPS - megaflops. 2. (benchmark) MFLOPS - A benchmark which attemps to estimate a system's floating-point "MFLOPS" rating for specific FADD, FSUB, FMUL and FDIV instruction mixes. C Source. Results, ftp://ftp.nosc. performance. The system has a list value of approximately $2 million. Founded in 1983, nCUBE pioneered the development of massively parallel computing solutions and today is a leading supplier. nCUBE systems are designed to accommodate the high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. needs of relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. , multimedia, and selected scientific applications. CONTACT: Miller Communications
Jodi Guilbault or Lisa Young, 415/962-9550
nCUBE Corporation, Foster City
Rich Wyckoff, 415/508-5430
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