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NEC SX-9 Supercomputer
By Robert | October 29, 2007
NEC recently announced the future launch of what is labeled as the world’s most powerful supercomputer currently available on the market, designed to suit the needs of scientists and researchers around the world. We might thus be viewing the current winner of the fight for supercomputer supremacy, a fight that has been going on since the seventies and has seen manufacturers like Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, SGI, IBM and NEC trying to always create the most powerful computer available.According to Japan’s NEC Corp, their new SX-9 comes in with an impressive capacity of calculating 839 teraflops (this means 839 trillion floating point operations in just one second). The senior vice president of the company, Yoshikazu Maruyama, declared that the new supercomputer was especially created to stand up and meet the need of the super-fast simulations of “advanced and complex large capacity scientific computing”. The SX-9 does stand out and it is just one of the many NEC signed supercomputers manufactured under the SX series. The company actually declared that more than 1,000 supercomputers labeled in the SX series were sold until know and with the launch of the SX-9 we can expect the numbers to grow quite a lot.
The NEC supercomputers are currently utilized in various fields of activity. This includes aerospace, large research institutes and even advanced weather forecasting, all demanding better and stronger features when it comes to teraflops. The official first display date for the NEC SX-9 is scheduled for the supercomputing convention held in Reno, Nevada, next month! It will be interesting to notice the response that other companies will have against the SX-9. We do live in a world where technology evolves at incredible rates and even what the SX-9 offers might not be enough when it comes to supercomputers.
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