NEC SX-9: High performance computer is really tall and powerful
NEC’s SX-9 supercomputer isn’t only the fastest standing PC in the face of the earth today but this could be very well be the tallest and best to date. I am not sure about the latter fact but since this one stands even taller than an average woman as seen in the photo.
This supercomputer boasts of high performance. It’s also called as an HPC (high performance computer) because of its hi-tech specs. The computer system even received excellent scores in the HPC Challenge Benchmark test in 19 of the 28 sections.
The HPC’s CPU is also said to be the first to achieve 100 GFLOPS+ in peak vector performance, aside from getting good scores in the memory bandwidth section.
Currently based in Japan at the Cyber Science Center of Tohoku University, the NEC SX-9 “performed well in parallel environments and in memory bandwidth for single CPUs in eight different areas”.
