The SX-ACE is a vector
NEC SX
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network solut ...
supercomputer from
NEC Corporation
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network soluti ...
. It features NEC's first multi-core
vector
Vector most often refers to:
*Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction
*Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism
Vector may also refer to:
Mathematic ...
System on a Chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memory ...
design, with four cores. The SX-ACE runs at 1 GHz, has peak performance of 64 GFLOPS per core, and has 64 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth per core. Four cores make up a shared-memory node, and 64 nodes can fit in a rack for a total performance of 16 TFLOPS per rack. The SX-ACE was released in 2013. NEC released the successor, the
SX-Aurora TSUBASA
The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA is a vector processor of the NEC SX architecture family. Unlike previous SX supercomputers, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA is provided as a PCIe card, termed by NEC as a "Vector Engine" (VE). Eight VE cards can be inserted into a v ...
in 2017.
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NEC SX-ACE Photos
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The is a series of supercomputers deployed at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Yokohama Institute of Earth Sciences.
Earth Simulator (first generation)
The first generation of Earth Simulator, developed by the Japanese go ...
3.
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See also
*SUPER-UX
SUPER-UX is a version of the Unix operating system from NEC that is used on its SX series of supercomputers.
History
The initial version of SUPER-UX was based on UNIX System V version 3.1 with features from BSD 4.3. The version for the NEC SX- ...
*SX architecture
SX, Sx, sx, or Sx may refer to:
In medicine
* Sx, symptoms
* Sx, surgery
In music
* SX (band), a Belgian indie pop band
* S-X (producer), a British producer and singer
In technology:
* .sx, the country code top-level domain for Sint Maarten
* ...
References
External links
SX-10 announcement press release
SX-ACE
Vector supercomputers
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