In this video from ISC 2019, Shintaro Momose, Ph. D. from NEC describes the company’s SX-Aurora Vector Engine. NEC is now the only vendor in the world still developing vector supercomputers, says ...

Seymour Cray loved vector supercomputers, and made the second part of that term a household word because of it. NEC, the last of the pure vector supercomputer makers, is so excited about its new ...

Lately, vectorization, an optimization technique synonymous with early vector supercomputers like the Cray-1 (1975), has reappeared with even greater importance than before. Exploiting the performance ...

The folks at Xilinx have announced that NEC Corporation has adopted the high-performance Virtex-5 LXT platform for its SX Series, SX-9, Vector Supercomputer, which is said to be the world's fastest ...

Sponsored When it comes to compute engines and network interconnects for supercomputers, there are lots of different choices available, but ultimately the nature of the applications — and how they ...

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With the launching a new vector supercomputer Thursday, NEC Corp. executives said they are racing after industry leaders IBM and Cray Inc. to recapture a piece of their faded supercomputer glory. Two ...

Even as IBM directs attention to the arrival of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, the company is quietly preparing a new twist on an older technology that will let it more directly compete with rivals ...

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. and Japanese rival NEC Corp. have buried the hatchet and signed an agreement under which Cray will sell NEC’s vector supercomputers in the U.S. and the two companies will ...