Japanese electronic giant NEC Corp. says that it has developed a supercomputer which is the most powerful of all the time. With the SX-9, NEC has set the competitors like Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel and SGI behind the race.
This latest addition to SX series has a computing power of 839 Teraflops, capable of carrying out 839 trillion floating point operations per second. Senior Vice President of NEC Corp, Yoshikazu Maruyama says:
“The SX-9 has been developed to meet the need for ultra-fast simulations of advanced and complex large-capacity scientific computing,”
NEC officials are sure that this mass computing supercomputer would help scientists to take giant leaps in medical field. The former supercomputers from SX series are vigorously used in high-intensive computing operations like weather forecasting, aerospace and large research institutes and companies.
Company records say that NEC has already sold around 1000 supercomputers in the SX series. The SX-9 will go on a first display at supercomputing convention being held at Reno, Nevada the next month.
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