NEC Announces Deskside Supercomputer.Tokyo, Japan, Sept 13, 2005 - (JCNN) - NEC (TSE: 6701; NASDAQ: NIPNY) announced the sale of the HPC Server SX sx abbr. -8i, a deskside vector operation supercomputer that achieves a processing power of 16GLOPS (billion floating point operations per second), on September 13. The space-saving server measures 45x70x70cm, and maintains complete compatibility with the SX Series supercomputers. symptoms Equipped with the world's smallest single-chip vector processor, the same as the one used in the SX-8 machine, the SX-8i can mount up to 32GB DRAM and delivers a thruput of 64GB/sec between the processor and memory, ensuring highly efficient use for advanced scientific and computing applications. The SX-8i supports a built-in hard drive capacity The amount of storage on a hard disk, measured in gigabytes. Your capacity requirement is derived from the size of your applications, but mostly the amount of data you need to store. Multimedia files such as graphics, animations and video take up considerably more space than text. See byte, hard drive and hard disk. of 146GB. The deskside supercomputer supports SUPER-UX, the same operating system as the SX-8, and offers a compiler with an auto vectorization function and a lineup of various programming tools. The new product sells for 12 million yen ($109,000) in a minimum configuration. Shipment is slated for February 2006. NEC is aiming to ship 300 systems over the next three years. Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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