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NEC Updates Vector Supercomputer Line
News NEC has updated its vector supercomputer line, introducing the SX-8R on Tuesday. The SX-8R processors double the number of features for performing addition and multiplication and run at a clock speed 10 percent faster than the SX-8's chips, NEC said.
[October 18, 2006, 13:00]
How To Get A Supercomputer For Free
News But NEC says the SX-6i is a true supercomputer because of its data-handling capabilities. The only catch is that aspiring supercomputer owners have to submit a research idea that NEC likes, and if they are allocated one they get to keep it for...
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
NEC Goes Old-school With New Supercomputer
News Much of the contemporary supercomputer world is focused on machines made up of a network of smaller computers, but NEC is going retro with its new model, the SX-7. Supercomputer specialist and former NEC foe Cray sells earlier SX series computers...
[October 15, 2002, 10:03]
Met Office Hails Supercomputing Success
News This follows the installation of an NEC SX-6 supercomputer in spring 2004, and compares with an average error reduction rate of 3 percent in the other five major weather modelling centres in France, Germany, the US, Canada and Japan.
[April 27, 2005, 17:40]
NEC Is King Of The Supercomputers
News A supercomputer in Japan that ties together 5,120 processors has widened its lead as the world's most powerful computer under a revised series of tests from market researcher IDC. The supercomputer can manage 35 trillion operations per second.
[May 17, 2002, 11:07]
IBM Goes Retro To Bridge The Supercomputing Divide
News Even as IBM directs attention to the arrival of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the company is quietly preparing a new twist on an older technology that will let it more directly compete with rivals such as Cray and NEC.
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Cray Supercomputer Will Draw Power From Sun
News In February, the company ended a long-running legal action against Japanese supercomputer makers, receiving a $25m investment from NEC and signing a ten-year deal to sell the Japanese company's SX vector supercomputers.
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News Big Blue is aggressively funding two major types of supercomputer research: first, its expensive Unix servers linked together with a high-speed "SP" switch, and second, larger numbers of less expensive computers using Intel processors and the...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). According to the official People's Daily, Chinese...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
IBM Dominates Supercomputing List
News Dawning's 4000A at Shanghai Supercomputer Centre Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee is working on a broader suite of tests so a government supercomputing project...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Is There A Supercomputer In Your Future?
News This comes straight out of the development work for supercomputer systems. What is more, the underlying trend in supercomputer development is increasingly toward Intel processors and Linux as the base operating system.
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News According to popular supercomputing site Top500.org, the world's most powerful supercomputer is the NEC Earth Simulator. China achieved a major advance in its technology ambitions as computer vendor Legend Group launched the country's first world...
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
AMD's Opteron Gets Supercomputer Boost
News In a deal that should buoy both computing companies, Sandia National Laboratories will install a $90m (£57m) supercomputer from Cray that will run on Opteron processors from AMD. The supercomputer, code-named Red Storm, will contain approximately...
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
Intel Plans Supercomputing Push
News At 20 teraflops, or 20 trillion floating-point calculations per second, Thunder would be the second-fastest supercomputer in the world if it were running now, following NEC's Earth Simulator, said Rick Herrmann, high-performance computing program...
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
US Urged To Take Supercomputing Beyond Clusters
News Vector processors, such as those used in NEC's powerful Earth Simulator supercomputer, can communicate with memory very quickly and excel at some widely used mathematical operations. In the past, supercomputer customers were limited by money rather...
[November 15, 2004, 7:45]
TeraGrid Supercomputing Project Expands
News The current fastest single supercomputer in the world is NEC's Earth Simulator in Tokyo, with performance of 36 teraflops; IBM has just won a $290m contract to build a 100-teraflop machine and a 360-teraflop machine.
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
Photos: Met Office Powers Ahead
News The centre has a full run through the main supercomputer bank every hour. The SX-8 is the new generation of supercomputer. Those on the right run off the supercomputer. These three boxes form one of the NEC SX-6 supercomputers, which represent the...
[July 2, 2007, 16:22]
Sun Chip To Mix Old And New
News The international supercomputer rivalry also will be on full display at the conference. On Monday, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Cray will provide details on Red Storm, a supercomputer designed around the Opteron processor from...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
New Entries Join Supercomputing Top 10
News The supercomputer gene pool has expanded. US officials who long have placed controls on supercomputer exports to China likely won't be encouraged by work in that country by Beijing-based Legend Group.
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
SGI Claims Supercomputing Victory
News Although a victor won't be declared for two weeks yet, Silicon Graphics has become the second computer maker to boast that its machinery is leading a competition for world's fastest supercomputer. Virginia Tech is another organisation looking for a...
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
