NEC with new supercomputer SX-9

NEC pushes with new supercomputer SX-9 to the world leaders. The manufacturer did not only make changes at the name: Instead of SX-8X the system is called SX-9 now. It supplies an agreed maximum performance of 839 Teraflop/s (trillion floating decimal point computations per second) and only one SX-9 is able to replace 3 of its predecessor models!
Substantial differences to the previously current SX-8R lie not only in the arithmetic performance of the new vector processor core of 102,4 Gigaflop/s (peak), but particularly in the high throughput of the memory system from twice 128 GByte/s. Thus NEC could treble in relation to achievement the SX-8 altogether nearly.
A computing knot consists of up to 16 processors. The memory throughput during the writing is with 4 Terabyte/s, the maximum of the MEMORY lies now with 1 Terabyte (instead of 256 GByte). The performance increase results particularly from the doubling of the vector pipelines of the vector processor produced now in the 65-nm-Prozess on eight instead of so far four. In addition the developers with the higher line density could raise the clock of 2,2 to 3,2 GHz.

NEC points out expressly that it acts during the arithmetic performance around the theoretical peak value and not around the Linpack value for the placement in the list of the fastest supercomputers of the world, the Top500. There NEC had reserved to before June 2002 by June 2004 the seat 1 and in the last year with the Earth simulator of place 3 in November 2004 at place 20 in June 2007 had dropped back.

Starting from 20,000 euros per month NEC offers such a system to the rent. So if you need some extra compute power...... :)