NEC SX Series Vector Computers. Table 1 SX Series system specification
Model | Year of announcement | Single CPU core performance | Memory bandwidth per CPU (GB/s) | Number of CPUs per node | Clock cycle (ns) | Single node performance (GFLOPS) | Main memory capacity (GB) | Memory bandwidth per node (GB/s) | Max. system performance (GFLOPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SX-1/2 | 1983 | 1.3 | 10.7 | 1 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.256 | 10.7 | 1.3 |
SX-3 | 1989 | 5.5 | 44 | 4 | 2.9 | 22 | 8 | 176 | 22 |
SX-4 | 1994 | 2.0 | 16 | 32 | 8 | 64 | 8 | 512 | 1,024 |
SX-5 | 1998 | 8.0 | 64 | 16 | 4 | 128 | 128 | 1,024 | 4,096 |
SX-6 | 2001 | 8.0 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 64 | 64 | 256 | 8,192 |
SX-7 | 2002 | 8.83 | 35.3 | 32 | 0.9 | 283 | 256 | 1,130 | 18,083 |
SX-8 | 2004 | 16 | 64 | 8 | 0.5 | 128 | 128 | 512 | 65,536 |
SX-8R | 2006 | 35.2 | 70.4 | 8 | 0.455 | 282 | 256 | 563 | 144,179 |
SX-9 | 2007 | 102.4 | 256 | 16 | 0.3125 | 1,638 | 1,024 | 4,096 | 838,861 |