NEC receives several orders for its flagship SX-5 supercomputersNew York 17 November 2000 NEC has received two new orders for its flagship SX-5 supercomputers from universities in Japan and installed a system at the Australian Center for Advanced Computing and Communications. The recent orders show the demand for vector supercomputers for tackling ever-complex computational problems is steadily increasing. NEC received an order for a 1.28 Tflop/s scalable parallel vector (PVP) SX-5 Series MultiNode supercomputer from Osaka University. The system, which employs 128 processors, will be one of the largest systems to be installed in Japan.
Osaka University will use the system in its Cybermedia Center, which provides the core of the educational and research environment needed for leading-edge data processing technology. The system is expected to begin operation in January 2001.
Kyoto University placed an order for a newly enhanced SX-5 Series PVP supercomputer that provides 40 Gflop/s peak performance using only four processors. The Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University will use the system to develop more accurate computer models of phenomenon ranging from the microstructures of elementary particles to large-scale structures such as cosmos. The operation of the new system is slated for January 2001.
NEC also installed a SX-5 machine capable of 16 billion calculations per second at the Australian Center for Advanced Computing and Communications, which just opened in Sydney. The NEC supercomputer provides core technology for the center. It is accessed by researchers, industry, State Government departments and universities throughout New South Wales via a high-speed communications link.
Since the introduction of SX-5 Series in January of 1999, NEC has received total of 67 orders worldwide. More than half of the orders come from the Americas, Europe and Oceania. NEC supplies scalable supercomputers that meet technical requirements for a number of leading industrial and research organizations in such areas as product design, financial risk analysis, engineering simulations, climate modelling and weather forecasting.
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