OREANDA-NEWS. NEC Corporation announced receipt of orders for the SX-ACE, a new vector supercomputer, from the Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University, a national university corporation, the Cybermedia Center (CMC) of Osaka University, also a national university corporation, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies, an independent administrative agency. This is the latest model of the NEC series of vector supercomputers that was released in November 2013.

The new product is the most suitable for scientific computing that requires super-high-speed parallel processing and large-scale data analysis. NEC will contribute to the advancement of ICT infrastructure that supports social development and innovation by providing it to research institutes and enterprises.

The SX-ACE is a new vector supercomputer equipped with a multi-core vector CPU, which enables the world's top-level single-core performance of 64 GFLOPS and the largest memory bandwidth per core of 64 GB/s. Its performance per rack has improved 10 times over previous models, with a rack computing performance of 16 teraFLOPS (hereinafter "TFLOPS") and a memory bandwidth of 16 Tbytes/second. It is especially suited for scientific and engineering computing applications and data-intensive applications that need high-speed processing of big data. It achieves high-sustained performance in various simulations - for weather forecasting, analysis of global environmental changes, fluid-dynamics analysis, nanotechnology, development of new materials and others.

Using NEC's leading edge LSI technology, a high-density packaging design, and high-efficiency cooling technology, the SX-ACE also reduces power consumption by 90% and requires 20% of the floor space of existing models.