Monday, February 25, 2008

NEC launches world's fastest supercomputer

The new SX-9 model is equipped with a central processing unit core that can process information at a maximum speed of 102.4 gigaflops.
One gigaflop is equivalent to one billion floating point operations per second.When connected with up to 512 units, one unit of the SX-9, which can be equipped with up to 16 CPUs, can perform information processing at 839 teraflops.
One teraflop represents one trillion floating point operations per second.
The vector-type supercomputer can conduct scientific and technical computations at high speed, which would be useful for work on climate, aeronautics or space, environmental simulations and fluid dynamics.

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