Supercomputer hits the shops
 

Japanese tin maker NEC has released a mass produced supercomputer computer which it claims knocks the socks off Big Blue's Blue Gene/L.

NEC says its imaginatively titled SX-8 is the most powerful "vector-type" supercomputer, with a sustainable data processing speed of 65 teraflops.

IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer is much less floppier with a flaccid 36.01 teraflops.

So far NEC had had more than 100 orders with the first models to be shipped to the UK and Germany. It wants to sell or rent 700 models in the first three years.

You will be able to buy it in a very big box in Akihabara, Tokyo, any time real soon now.

News source: ieXbeta
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