NEC Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/nec/ At the Convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:57:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://insidehpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ihpc-favicon.png NEC Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/nec/ 32 32 57143778 NEC Wins HPC Order from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology and National Institute for Fusion Science https://insidehpc.com/2024/11/nec-wins-hpc-order-from-japans-national-institutes-for-quantum-science-and-technology-and-national-institute-for-fusion-science/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:57:20 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=95129

Tokyo, November 13, 2024 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has received an order for a next-generation supercomputer system from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), under the National Research and Development Agency, and the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), part of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences under the Inter-University Research Institute […]

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]]> 95129 NEC Selects DDN and Nvidia for AI Research Supercomputer in Japan https://insidehpc.com/2022/05/nec-selects-ddn-and-nvidia-for-ai-research-supercomputer-in-japan/ Wed, 18 May 2022 18:34:35 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89651

CHATSWORTH, Calif., May 18, 2022 — High performance storage company DDN today announced that NEC Corporation (NEC) has selected DDN storage for its new supercomputer dedicated to AI research. DDN said the system will have a raw compute performance of 580 PFLOPS, provide “data scientists at NEC with access to the largest AI-focused development environment in […]

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]]> 89651 NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture https://insidehpc.com/2022/03/nec-first-unit-cell-for-scaling-up-to-a-fully-connected-quantum-annealing-architecture/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:56:46 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89292 Tokyo, March 17, 2022 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed the world’s first LHZ scheme (*1) unit cell facilitating scaling up to a fully-connected architecture using superconducting parametron (*2) quantum bits (qubits). NEC has succeeded in demonstrating quantum annealing operations using these qubits, which will enable high accuracy calculations. Via this achievement, NEC has made […]

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]]> 89292 NEC and Aramco Enter Into HPC R&D Collaboration for Joint Application https://insidehpc.com/2021/09/nec-and-aramco-enter-into-hpc-rd-collaboration-for-joint-application/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 21:58:42 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88385 Düsseldorf, 20 September, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a collaboration with Aramco Europe with the aim of joint development and optimization of various applications for resource exploration and seismic imaging. Aramco Europe is a subsidiary of Aramco, one of world’s largest global integrated energy and chemicals companies, headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The Aramco Research […]

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]]> 88385 NEC Launches ‘Quantum-inspired’ Simulated Annealing Service Using Vector Supercomputers https://insidehpc.com/2021/09/nec-launches-quantum-inspired-simulated-annealing-service-using-vector-supercomputers/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:09:28 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88270

NEC Corporation has announced the launch of the “NEC Vector Annealing Service,” a quantum-inspired simulated annealing service that uses a vector supercomputer, as well as the launch of educational services that enable participants to learn about quantum computers and how to use simulated annealing machines, according to the company. NEC said it will start offering […]

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]]> 88270 New NEC AI Supercomputer at Technische Universität Dresden https://insidehpc.com/2021/04/new-nec-ai-supercomputer-at-technische-universitat-dresden/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:21:20 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=87493 Düsseldorf, 22 April, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH has announced that the Technische Universität Dresden has taken a new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster into full operation. The new HPC cluster is operated by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TU Dresden for the German wide AI competence centre ScaDS.AI […]

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]]> 87493 Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Puts NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa Supercomputer into Operation https://insidehpc.com/2021/02/czech-hydrometeorological-institute-puts-nec-sx-aurora-tsubasa-supercomputer-into-operation/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:29:26 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=86833 Tokyo, February 12, 2021 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) put an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer into service. The newly deployed HPC solution is used for high-resolution regional climate modelling. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer was delivered by NEC Deutschland GmbH in September 2020 and operational readiness was […]

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]]> 86833 The Role of Middleware in Optimizing Vector Processing https://insidehpc.com/white-paper/the-role-of-middleware-in-optimizing-vector-processing/ https://insidehpc.com/white-paper/the-role-of-middleware-in-optimizing-vector-processing/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:56:42 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?post_type=wpdmpro&p=83240

This whitepaper delves into the world of unstructured data and describes some of the technologies, especially vector processors and their optimization software, that play key roles in solving the problems that arise as result of the accelerating amount of data generated globally.

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]]> 0 83240 JUSTUS 2 Supercomputer from NEC Deployed at University of Ulm https://insidehpc.com/2020/03/justus-2-supercomputer-from-nec-deployed-at-university-of-ulm/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:12:32 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=83118

NEC has deployed a new supercomputer at the University of Ulm in Germany. With a peak performance of 2 petaflops, the 4.4 million euro JUSTUS 2 system will enable complex simulations in chemistry and quantum physics. "JUSTUS 2 enables highly complex computer simulations at the molecular and atomic level, for example from chemistry and quantum science, as well as complex data analysis. And this with significantly higher energy efficiency than its predecessor,” said Ulrich Steinbach.

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]]> 83118 AMD Powers CARA Supercomputer from NEC in Dresden https://insidehpc.com/2020/02/amd-powers-cara-supercomputer-from-nec-in-dresden/ https://insidehpc.com/2020/02/amd-powers-cara-supercomputer-from-nec-in-dresden/#comments Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:51:47 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=82747

The DLR German Aerospace Center dedicated its new CARA supercomputer in Dresden on February 5, 2020. With 1.746 Petaflops of performance on the Linpack benchmark, the AMD-powered system from NEC is currently rated #221 on the TOP500.  "With its almost 150,000 computing cores, CARA is one of the most powerful supercomputers available internationally for aerospace research," said Prof. Markus Henke from TU Dresden.

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