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NEC SX architecture

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The SX series are vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC. [1]

37 relations: Ada (programming language), C++, Central processing unit, Compiler, Connection Machine, Cray, Earth Simulator, Eckert–Mauchly Award, Emacs, FLOPS, Fortran, Free software, Fujitsu VP2000, Gigabyte, GNU Compiler Collection, GNU General Public License, LINPACK, Linux, Megabyte, NEC, NEC SX architecture, NEC SX-6, NEC SX-8, NEC SX-9, NEC SX-ACE, Operating system, Parallel computing, Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, SUPER-UX, Supercomputer, SX-Aurora TSUBASA, Symmetric multiprocessing, Tadashi Watanabe, Terabyte, Vector processor, Vertical market software, Vim (text editor).

Ada (programming language)

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages.

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C++

C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

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Compiler

A compiler is computer software that transforms computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another programming language (the target language).

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Connection Machine

A Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers that grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s.

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Cray

Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Earth Simulator

The, developed by the Japanese government's initiative "Earth Simulator Project", was a highly parallel vector supercomputer system for running global climate models to evaluate the effects of global warming and problems in solid earth geophysics.

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Eckert–Mauchly Award

The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture.

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Emacs

Emacs is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility.

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FLOPS

In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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Fortran

Fortran (formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

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Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Fujitsu VP2000

The VP2000 was the second series of vector supercomputers from Fujitsu.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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GNU Compiler Collection

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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LINPACK

LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on digital computers.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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NEC

is a Japanese multinational provider of information technology (IT) services and products, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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NEC SX architecture

The SX series are vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC.

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NEC SX-6

The SX-6 is a supercomputer built by NEC Corporation that debuted in 2001; the SX-6 was sold under license by Cray Inc. in the U.S. Each SX-6 single-node system contains up to eight vector processors, which share up to 64 GB of computer memory.

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NEC SX-8

The SX-8 is a supercomputer built by NEC Corporation.

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NEC SX-9

The SX-9 is a supercomputer built by NEC Corporation.

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NEC SX-ACE

The SX-ACE is a vector supercomputer from NEC Corporation.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Parallel computing

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out concurrently.

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Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award

The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award given by the IEEE Computer Society, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing.

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SUPER-UX

SUPER-UX, sometimes also annotated SuperUx or Super-UX, is the version of the Unix operating system that is used on NEC SX architecture supercomputers.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.

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SX-Aurora TSUBASA

The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine (VE) is a vector processor of the NEC SX architecture family and features very high memory bandwidth (0.75 - 1.2 TB/s), eight cores and six HBM2 memory modules on a Silicon interposer implemented in the form-factor of a PCIe card.

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Symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.

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Tadashi Watanabe

is a Japanese computer engineer.

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Terabyte

The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Vector processor

In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors, compared to scalar processors, whose instructions operate on single data items.

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Vertical market software

Vertical market software is aimed at addressing the needs of any given business within a discernible vertical market (specific industry or market).

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Vim (text editor)

Vim ("Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It's written with a capital, since it's a name, again like Jim." a contraction of Vi IMproved) is a clone, with additions, of Bill Joy's vi text editor program for Unix.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_SX_architecture

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