NEC has launched its SX-ACE supercomputer which is claimed to offer fastest processor core performance in the world.
The new supercomputer is claimed to incorporate the fastest processor core offering 256 GFLOPS speed, which is ten times more compared to the current SX-9 models.
The device also has a multi-core vector CPU that provides an ultra high-speed interconnect with a maximum of 8 GB/s in each direction offering highest memory bandwidth per core of 64 GFLOPS.
According to the company, the SX-ACE can have a rack computing performance of 16 TFLOPS (one trillion floating-point operations per second) and a memory bandwidth of 16TB per second.
SX-ACE is said to be equipped with the new LSI technology, high-density design and high-efficiency cooling technology that help in reducing power consumption to one-tenth, while occupying one-fifth of the floor space compared to the SX-9 models.
The vector supercomputers are designed to process large-scale data and to scientific computations.
