P.M. BRIEFING : Japan Unveils ‘Fastest’ Computers
The NEC Corp. unveiled a new series of supercomputers today which it called the fastest in the world.
Industry analysts said the new machines could give Japan an edge in the race to build computers that can work so fast they can simulate various natural phenomena.
“It’s the fastest four-processor machine in the world and the fastest single processor,” said Raul Mendez, director of the private Institute for Supercomputing Research.
Supercomputers are used in various fields of research and have been indispensable to modeling complex natural phenomena such as the flow of air over an aircraft wing.
The corporation’s supercomputer is the first by a Japanese firm to use multiprocessors, harnessing the parallel processing that is the key to boosting overall performance.
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