Project Aurora – Unveiling NEC’s Brand New Vector
Supercomputer
SessionSystems
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Event Type
Exhibitor Forum
TimeTuesday, November 14th2pm -
2:30pm
Location501-502
DescriptionNEC unveils the details of the next-generation vector
supercomputer (project code: Aurora), which is a
successor system to the latest model SX-ACE. This
brand-new system is slated for its product release in
2018. In order to make available both high sustained
performance and productivity, NEC develops an innovative
vector processor offering the world’s highest memory
bandwidth per processor. It is built into a standard
PCIe card as Vector Engine, which allows the user to
capitalize on a high sustained performance for a
spectrum of applications in the de facto standard
x86/Linux environment. There is no need to struggle for
special programming techniques in harnessing its
processing capabilities. This card device enables easy
programming in standard Fortran/C/C++ languages, for
which the NEC compiler will automatically carry out
vectorization and parallelization. The user can benefit
from a higher sustained performance with minimum effort
by utilizing the Vector Engine hardware.
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