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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. GFLOPS? TFLOPS? by pushing-robot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Forget esoteric units, how fast is it in Playstation3s per foot-second?

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  2. Combination Trollmein by ross.w · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does it run linux in a Beowulf cluster using a battery running on hot grits?

    in Soviet Russia?

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  3. The fastest? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you're the fastest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on integer arithmetic. And he says that lots of times, you don't even parallelize instructions. And that you don't really try...

  4. Re:beowulf by Poltras · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, because we haven't seen that troll ever before... BTW, I'm posting this unanonymously to prove I haven't moderated, and that I have karma to burn

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