October 26, 2007 - 10:58AM
NEC says its SX-9 is the the world's fastest vector supercomputer.
Japan's NEC Corp has announced the launch of what it called the world's most powerful supercomputer on the market, meant for advanced use in the sciences.
Since the 1970s, major computer makers such as NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi in Japan and IBM, Intel and Cray in the United States have been vying to build the most powerful computer, measured in terms of gigaflops and teraflops.
NEC said its latest supercomputer, called SX-9, was capable of calculating 839 teraflops. Each teraflop is a trillion calculations per second.
The IBM BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now No. 1 in the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers with performance measured at 280.6 teraflops.
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