Largest PVP supercomputer to be installed by NRC at Osaka UniversityTokyo 13 August 2000 NEC received an order for a 1.28 Tflop/s scalable parallel vector (PVP) SX-5/128M8 supercomputer that will be installed at the Cybermedia Center of Osaka University in Japan. This 128 processor system will not only be the largest PVP ever delivered, but will also be the largest-scale system installed in Japan. Based on today's Top500 List of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, which uses Linpack performance as the sole metric for rating, this system will be the 5th most powerful.
Because PVP systems are known to deliver a higher proportion of their peak performance
for most typical applications, as compared to parallel scalar systems, this machine is
expected to deliver the highest sustainable performance of any non-governmental system
world-wide.
The Cybermedia Center of Osaka University is a collaborative organization established
in April 2000 to provide the core of the educational and research environment needed for
leading-edge data processing technology. It is a successor to the University's Computation
Center, which was established in 1969. The facility thus has a long and successful history
of providing leading computational resources to researchers in various fields and supporting
their large-scale technical computing needs.
The new system will replace an SX-4/62M2 (128 Gflop/s) which was installed in 1996.
NEC is pleased to receive this upgrade order because it confirms the University's good experience
achieving high sustainable performance, usability, reliability, and interoperability with NEC's
SX Series supercomputer products.
The Cybermedia Center, taking advantage of the opportunities this new system will provide,
aims to establish an even more effective computational environment through enhanced internet
supercomputing initiatives, and to make a significant enhancement of their success in the applic
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of computational sciences supporting users who continually need more precise and larger-scale numeric
simulations to maintain their world-wide competitive advantage.
This order makes 65 total SX-5 supercomputers ordered worldwide with 30 being in Japan. The
fact that more than half of the systems are from the Americas, Europe, and Oceania reinforces
the performance, quality, reliability, and excellent customer acceptance of the SX-5 Series system.
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