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NEC Strikes Back With SX-8 Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Obligatory... by Infinityis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of SX-8 supercomputer overlords welcome me!

  2. Where are the .... by mbrewthx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doom 3 benchmarks???? Will I have to upgrade it to run HL2...

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  3. skynet ~$ by 21chrisp · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello Skynet, nice to meet you.

  4. i wonder by patrick.whitlock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what kind of framerates will it make doom 3 hit

  5. obligatory by fawlty154 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    /me makes some random obligatory comment about a beowulf cluster...

  6. Siemens is far ahead by fionbio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The have SX-56 which is probably 7 times more powerful but unfortunatelly runs Windows CE... ;-(

  7. Comp Power in R2 units by DarthStrydre · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many of these would it take to equal the processing power in an R2 astromech? I want to make a hyperspace jump NOW dammit!

    And no, I do not want to starburst - it is way too random - you never know where you are going to revert to realspace. Plus I do not have a Leviathan.

    Well, for that matter, I do not have a hyperdrive unit either, so the computations would be for naught.

  8. wow by mule007 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    65 trillion flops? Too bad Kerry beat them to it..