NEC Strikes Back With SX-8 Supercomputer

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NEC Strikes Back With SX-8 Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @05:51AM from the my-honor-student-can-beat-up-your-dad dept.

News for nerds writes "It was just 3 weeks ago that we learned IBM's BlueGene/L with 36.01 TFlops edged out NEC's Earth Simulator, but today NEC announces a new SX-8 supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65 TFlops (press release). It may be available in the U.S. as Cray's OEM like SX-6."

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Shallow Minds by stecoop · 2004-10-20 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny

65 trillion calculations per second and all I ponder is if NEC would mind using my user id while running seti@home.
1. Re:Shallow Minds by CriX · 2004-10-20 06:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "The monthly rental price of the SX-8 starts from approximately 1,170,000 yen, and shipment will commence in December 2004."
  
  Have you been a good little nerd? :-)
  
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Packard Bell by lateralus_1024 · 2004-10-20 05:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Tom's Hardware stated the the guts are Packard Bell, and it comes with a WinModem. That sucks.

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Yes, but... by extagboy · 2004-10-20 05:54 · Score: 4, Funny

...can it figure out the question to the answer 42?
1. Re:Yes, but... by outriding9800 · 2004-10-20 06:59 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Alex... What is 42 ?
Damn.... by identity0 · 2004-10-20 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Note that 'SX-8' pronounced 'Sex-ay' :-)
Usage by fembots · 2004-10-20 05:57 · Score: 2, Funny

I was about to say "With a computer this powerful, the world probably only needs 4 of these", but history tells me otherwise :)

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Re:Two words... by bobgoatcheese · 2004-10-20 06:09 · Score: 3, Funny

No Grendel! Stop attacking my village! I think you forgot "cluster."

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Re:BGL will be back on top in short order by The+Lost+Supertone · 2004-10-20 06:18 · Score: 2, Funny

8 racks... brings new meaning to "look at that rack!"
Re:What about cost? by tokenhillbilly · 2004-10-20 06:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually, the computer price is quite reasonable. It's the nuclear power plant to supply the 21 million jigawatts required to run it and its cooling system that will set you back big bucks.
65 Tflops on my desktop by websage · 2004-10-20 06:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Even with 65Tflops it still takes 3 min to apply my desktop settings.

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Re:In the interest of perpetuating rumors by Mekabyte · 2004-10-20 06:30 · Score: 2, Funny

So is that why he's never there to teach my Networking class anymore?
Re:Make your time by Gil-galad55 · 2004-10-20 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

The SX-8 has no chance to survive.
NEC, make your time.

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But.. by SnarfQuest · 2004-10-20 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

How well does it handle XP SP2?

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