NEC’s Supercomputer to achieve world’s highest computing efficiency
In a race to achieve the highest level of performance and computing efficiency in the world of Supercomputing, NEC moved one step closer by announcing that the company’s “Earth Simulator System” which NEC deployed for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology back in March 1st, 2009 has achieved sustained performance of 122.4 TFLOPS which is short for TERAFLOPS and computing efficiency of 93.38% on the LINPACK benchmark. The TERAFLOP is a floating-point calculation speed with one TERAFLOP measuring to 1 trillion occurrences every second and as for The LINPACK Benchmark, it is a program that measures computer performance. The “TOP500 Supercomputing Sites,” a comparison program of supercomputers’ performance, has been adopted as a standard benchmark. This achievement places NEC as the number 1 in Japan and number 16th in the world in terms of sustain performance plus the company achieved the number one spot in the world in terms of computing efficiency according to the “TOP500 Supercomputing Sites,” published in November 2008. Read more
