OREANDA-NEWS. NEC Corporation has announced the worldwide availability of the SX-ACE supercomputer, the latest model in NEC's SX Series of vector supercomputers, featuring the fastest processor core performance in the world.

The SX-ACE is the first SX Series supercomputer equipped with a multi-core vector CPU, which enables the world's fastest core performance and the world's highest memory bandwidth per core. Its performance per rack has improved ten times over existing SX-9 models, and it offers high sustained performance and ease of use in scientific computing applications. Furthermore, using NEC's leading edge LSI technology, a high-density design, and high-efficiency cooling technology, the SX-ACE reduces power consumption to one-tenth and requires one-fifth the floor space of existing SX-9 models.    

Vector supercomputers are especially suited to high-speed processing of large-scale data and to scientific computations. They have achieved high-application performance in various simulations-for weather forecasting, analysis of global environmental trends, fluid analysis, nanotechnology, development of new materials, etc. In these fields, the NEC SX Series has achieved cumulative sales of over 1,400 units worldwide. The SX-ACE, like all models in the SX Series, is a supercomputer developed to provide both high performance and ease of use. It has achieved the world's fastest application performance per core (Note 3), and even with a smaller number of usable cores, it has achieved higher performance.