<div>Tim,</div>
<div>Yes, from Wiki:</div>
<div>"Built by <a title="Nippon Electric Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Electric_Corporation">NEC</a>, the ES is based on their <a title="NEC SX-6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_SX-6">
SX-6</a> architecture. It consists of 640 nodes with eight <a title="Vector processor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor">vector processors</a> and 16 <a title="Gibibyte" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte">
gibibytes</a> of <a title="Computer memory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_memory">computer memory</a> at each node, for a total of 5120 <a title="Central processing unit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit">
processors</a> and 10 <a title="Tebibyte" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte">tebibytes</a> of memory..."</div>
<div>That was the 36 TFLOPS. </div>
<div>Peter<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Cutts</b> <<a href="mailto:tjrc@sanger.ac.uk">tjrc@sanger.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>On 29 Oct 2007, at 3:57 pm, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:<br><br>> In message from "Peter St. John" <
<a href="mailto:peter.st.john@gmail.com">peter.st.john@gmail.com</a>> (Mon, 29<br>> Oct 2007 10:31:49 -0500):<br>>> According to <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7458">http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7458
</a>,<br>>> NEC has<br>>> announced an 800+ TFLOPS machine, SX-9; it does 100-odd GFLOPS per<br>>> core<br>>> (with a new vector processor).<br>>> Peter<br>>> P.S. gosh, wouldn't it be cool to have a beowulf of these?! :-)
<br>><br>> SX-9 itself has 512 nodes in full configuration w/840 vector TFLOPS.<br>> To build cluster based on such SX-9s you'll need to organize<br>> channel bonding of a lot Infiniband QDR channels :-))<br>
<br>Isn't that basically what the Earth Simulator was? Just built out of<br>earlier NEC vector machines? SX-6 or something?<br><br>Tim<br><br><br>--<br>The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research
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