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The SX Series is the parallel vector supercomputer that has been provided by NEC as its flagship high-performance computing system. After the advent of its pioneering models of SX-1/2 back in 1983, NEC has continuously been enhancing this series toward the SX-9, which has the world’s fastest single CPU core performance of 102.4 GFLOPS. It makes up 1 node system of 1.6 TFLOPS peak performance, which can be configured up to 512 nodes enabling almost petascale computing with the maximum vector performance of 839 TFLOPS. The technology basis of the SX Series has led to the realization of the Earth Simulator at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) that has earned the number one position on the Linpack benchmark during 2002–2004 for five times in the row, as well as its successor model (renewed Earth Simulator) put into operational use in 2009. The SX Series has been utilized for a spectrum of...
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Takahara, H. (2011). NEC SX Series Vector Computers. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_425
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