NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer

An anonymous reader writes "NEC has announced the NEC SX-9 claiming it to be the fastest vector computer, with single core speeds of up to 102.4 GFLOPS and up to 1.6TFLOPS on a single node incorporating multiple CPUs. The machines can be used in complex large-scale computation, such as climates, aeronautics and space, environmental simulations, fluid dynamics, through the processing of array-handling with a single vector instruction. Yes, it runs a UNIX System V-compatible OS."

Comments

Re:Quite possibly.

[Anonymous Coward]

99% of PCs in the world CAN run Linux. :-)

Unless you want working device drivers :-P

Re:beowulf

[catmistake]

That was my 2nd 1st post ever... and it should be modded funny, because, well, it is the 1st post, and with 2 words and a punctuation I clearly capture at least 3 levels characteristic of the typical /.-user : 1) what comes to mind when ever a single powerful computer is considered, 2) uncontrolable nerdy enthusiasm, and 3) the inability to effectively communicate anything meaningful with human language.