"NEC Corp. has begun marketing the SX-8, its latest entry in the supercomputer sweepstakes. The vector supercomputer features peak processing performance of 65 teraflops, which according to NEC tops rival IBM Corp.'s latest entry," reports EE Times.
"It will start shipping machines in December, first to the UK Meteorological Office and then to the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart in Germany. NEC has already received about 100 orders for the SX-8, according to Kondo. The UK system will have 15 nodes while the German system will have 64."
