The Alienware of supercomputers...EDIT: Now with pics!

[Random Variable]

EDIT: Pics of all 12 color options

The NEC SX-6i is a deskside supercomputer that uses the same 8 GFLOPS/s vector processor as the NEC "Earth Simulator" supercomputer.

In addition, the SX-6i has 32 GB/s (not 3.2 GB/s like dual-channel PC800 RDRAM) of memory bandwidth.

PDF (429KB)

 

[Czar]

not bad not bad, whats the price?

I need a good divx machine

 

[Random Variable]

<< not bad not bad, whats the price?

I need a good divx machine >>


I don't know. It's hard to find stuff on the NEC web site because it is so disorganized.

 

[Czar]

Site with lots of info


Indepth specs, where the goodies are at

 

[Random Variable]

<< Site with lots of info


Indepth specs, where the goodies are at >>


That site only covers the larger systems (not to mention that that site has not been updated since last year). I already posted the PDF datasheet for the SX-6i.

 

[Random Variable]

<< not bad not bad, whats the price? >>


200,000 EURO.

 

[toant103]

that's a lot of $$$$$$$$$$44

 

[Bluga]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Random Variable]

Some more info:


<< NEC starts to sell the deskside vector supercomputer NEC SX-6i with its proprietary fastest one-chip-vector processor with a peak performance of 8 GFlop/s. Its size of 45x73x70 cm is comparable to a PC in a tower. Additionally the NEC-SX6i is available in a rack version with one and two processors. The processor consists of 8-way vector pipes running at 500 MHz. There are vector add/shift, vector multiply, vector logical and vector division. The peak performance is calculated only for add and multiply. If a vector division is running in parallel to vadd and vmult, the SX-6 exceeds its peak performance. >>


http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=1633

 

[Random Variable]

a bump for the pics

 

[Random Variable]

one final bump before I let this thread die

 

[MustPost]

<<200,000 EURO. >>

Thats it. So basically its the lower middle end or upper low end of Supercomputer/workstation computers.

 

[N8Magic]

Sorry, but when it comes to cool looking servers, SGI still leads the industry.

 

[ElFenix]

thats about the range sun and ibm are competing hard over right now.

 

[chiwawa626]

<< Sorry, but when it comes to cool looking servers, SGI still leads the industry. >>



yeah sgi has always had some badd ass servers...i was at a computer surplus store and they had a few old sgi servers and they had some intresting cases