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.
Damn.... by identity0 · 2004-10-20 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Note that 'SX-8' pronounced 'Sex-ay' :-)
65 TFlop is only an estimate by foobar3149 · 2004-10-20 06:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

The 65 TFlop for the SX-8 is only an estimate while the 36 TFlop for BlueGene/L was real performance. So it is not certain that SX-8 will be faster than Blue Gene/L
BGL will be back on top in short order by tubbtubb · 2004-10-20 06:12 · Score: 5, Informative

Remember that the 36.01 TF figure for BlueGene/L was only using 8 racks.
The final BG/L will use 64 Racks.
Also, the SX-8 figure is only an estimation.
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.
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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