Tim, Yes, from Wiki: "Built by NEC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Electric_Corporation>, the ES is based on their SX-6 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_SX-6>architecture. It consists of 640 nodes with eight vector processors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor> and 16 gibibytes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte>of computer memory <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_memory> at each node, for a total of 5120 processors<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit>and 10 tebibytes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte> of memory..." That was the 36 TFLOPS. Peter
On 10/29/07, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 29 Oct 2007, at 3:57 pm, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > > > In message from "Peter St. John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, 29 > > Oct 2007 10:31:49 -0500): > >> According to http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7458, > >> NEC has > >> announced an 800+ TFLOPS machine, SX-9; it does 100-odd GFLOPS per > >> core > >> (with a new vector processor). > >> Peter > >> P.S. gosh, wouldn't it be cool to have a beowulf of these?! :-) > > > > SX-9 itself has 512 nodes in full configuration w/840 vector TFLOPS. > > To build cluster based on such SX-9s you'll need to organize > > channel bonding of a lot Infiniband QDR channels :-)) > > Isn't that basically what the Earth Simulator was? Just built out of > earlier NEC vector machines? SX-6 or something? > > Tim > > > -- > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. >
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