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

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the better-faster-stronger dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so awesome when girls post...

  2. I can see the ads now by UnixUnix · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Easter Island's Weather Forecasting Service believes operation of the NEC SX-9 would realize a 53% savings under Windows Server 2008 compared to under UNIX"

  3. Re:GFLOPS? TFLOPS? by thedarknite · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's with these new fangled measurements.

    I'd like to know what it is in Libraries of Congress per Jiffy

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  4. Does it play vector games? by filesiteguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how well it will do with the really cool vector games like Asteroids or BattleZone or Tempest or...


    ...Star Wars! Yeah, we could take this little baby, setup a sit-down booth, add some speakers and we'd be set!



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  5. Re:GFLOPS? TFLOPS? by PresidentEnder · · Score: 3, Funny
    Your units don't cancel properly. Flops = floating point operations / second, PS3s / foot-second = physical object / (viscosity / weight). You could stretch PS3s to be units of processing power / time, which gives you processing power / time / viscosity, which we'll fudge to be about flops / viscosity.

    I dunno: maybe this thing could run faster at higher temperatures in lower gravity?

    (/pretending to know what I'm talking about)

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  6. Re:1.6 Teraflops? by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh... so you're planning to turn Aero on.

  7. Re:GFLOPS? TFLOPS? by sqrt(2) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your units don't cancel properly... Oh no, physics class flashback! No! NOOOOOOOO! I don't want to do this whole equation again!
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  8. Re:Oh? by colourmyeyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    user@host:~ $ ls
    You are about to list the files in this directory.
    Are you sure you want to do this? [y/n] y

    Enter Administrator password:

    We're sorry, using MS Bash 4.00 Basic you do not have
    the proper privilege level to view system files.
    Please purchase MS Bash 4.00 Mega, Ultra, or Extreme.
    Would you like to purchase one of these products now? [y/n] y

    We're sorry, this product is not upgradeable. Please
    reinstall your operating system, choosing "clean install"
    during the upgrade process. Thank you for choosing the
    rich user experience provided by MS Bash 4.00.

    MS Bash must now restart your computer.

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  9. Re:GFLOPS? TFLOPS? by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funnily enough - this isn't totally irrelevant.

    In 2000, IBM, Toshiba and Sony collaborated to create a Cell processor, consisting of one scalar processor and eight vector processors, for the Sony PlayStation 3. - Wikipedia.org So there should be a Tera-PlayStation (TPS) measurement ? And if so who has the TPS report on that machine ?
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