TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 18 — NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on has announ­ced that it has star­ted deve­lo­ping a next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor super­com­pu­ter. This new model will be the suc­ces­sor to the SX-ACE super­com­pu­ter. With this next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor machi­ne, NEC aims to achie­ve a rack per­for­mance that is more than 10 times grea­ter than the cur­rent model, and a maxi­mum sys­tem per­for­mance that is more than 100 times grea­ter, resul­ting in an impro­ve­ment of pro­ces­sing per­for­mance to tens of petaflops.

NEC aims to levera­ge the know-how and tech­no­lo­gies achie­ved through the deve­lo­p­ment of the SX-ACE in order to redu­ce power and space con­sump­ti­on, ther­eby enab­ling a signi­fi­cant impro­ve­ment in ope­ra­ting effi­ci­en­cy. Spe­ci­fi­cal­ly, the com­pa­ny aims to deve­lop a super­com­pu­ter that con­su­mes less than 10% of the power of the cur­rent model and takes up less than 1/30 of the space. The pre­vious super­com­pu­ter requi­red the same amount of space as a mee­ting room for appro­xi­m­ate­ly 10 peo­p­le. In con­trast, the com­pact size of the new super­com­pu­ter allows users to install it in loca­ti­ons as small as the area of an office desk. Elec­tric power cos­ts will also be less than 10% of tho­se for the cur­rent model.

In addi­ti­on, NEC plans to offer a full lin­e­up of next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor super­com­pu­ters. This lin­e­up will offer a wide ran­ge of per­for­mance opti­ons for various appli­ca­ti­ons, such as use by indi­vi­du­al rese­ar­chers or use at data cen­ters that pro­cess lar­ge volu­mes of data. The full lin­e­up reflects NEC’s expec­ta­ti­ons for the wide­spread use of vec­tor tech­no­lo­gy in big data mar­kets, inclu­ding the ana­ly­sis of images and lar­ge-size data.

“In addi­ti­on to cut­ting-edge rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment acti­vi­ties, such as cli­ma­te pre­dic­tion, auto­mo­bi­le design and air­craft design, NEC intends to expand the appli­ca­ti­ons of super­com­pu­ters to include urban deve­lo­p­ment, which will help impro­ve safe­ty and secu­ri­ty, as well as sys­tems that sup­port hig­her levels of eco­no­mic acti­vi­ty,” said Shi­ni­chi Sho­ji, exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent, NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on. “In doing so, we will help advan­ce infor­ma­ti­on and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons tech­no­lo­gy infra­struc­tu­re and con­tri­bu­te to socie­ty, busi­nesses and the ever­y­day lives of people.”

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Source: NEC Corporation