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Less than a month after IBM claimed the world's fastest computer crown from NEC, the Japanese company is trying to win it back with a new supercomputer that will be available from December.
NEC's SX-8 is a vector supercomputer that has a peak processing performance of 65 teraflops (trillion calculations per second), said Susumu Sakamoto, a spokesman for NEC.
That is almost twice as fast as the 36.01 teraflops achieved in September by a prototype version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer.
That performance, measured using the standard Linpack benchmark, made Blue Gene the fastest supercomputer in the world ahead of the NEC-built Earth Simulator supercomputer, which had managed a sustained performance of 35.86 teraflops on the same benchmark.
However the SX-8 hasn't edged out Blue Gene yet. Its performance figure is only an estimate, albeit one NEC thinks it can achieve.
There are three versions of the SX-8 available, two single-node and one multi-node, and the 65 teraflops performance refers to the top-of-the-line multi-node machine. This has the maximum of 512 nodes, each with eight processors to make a total of 4,096 processors.
 News source: ComputerWeekly.co.uk
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