NEC showcases world’s most powerful supercomputer SX-9

NEC has showcased what they claim is currently the world’s most powerful supercomputer available in the market.

This is the latest attempt from a tech giant to showcase their superiority over the other. Companies involved in constructing these kind of supercomputers include Fujitsu and Hitachi along with IBM, Intel and SGI.

NEC has named this new machine SX-9 and they claim that the machine is capable of calculating 839 teraflops.

Yoshikazu Maruyama, senior vice president of NEC Corp. added in his statement: “The SX-9 has been developed to meet the need for ultra-fast simulations of advanced and complex large-capacity scientific computing.”