PCIe-based Vector Engine card
NEC Corporation announced the global launch of a PCIe-based Vector Engine card (Vector Engine) to tap into the growing demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The shipment of the Vector Engine will start from January 2021.
The Vector Engine is the core component of
NEC’s SX-Aurora TSUBASA vector supercomputer, which has been deployed to
more than 100 customers worldwide since 2018. The Vector Engine
provides a 2.45 TeraFlops computation capability and a 1.53
TeraBytes/second
memory bandwidth with around 200W power consumption for processing
scientific applications. This high computation capability and power
efficiency are enabled by eight powerful cores, making it possible to
accelerate data intensive scientific applications with
lower power consumption.
Sourcing the Vector Engine from NEC allows system integrators to offer
vector computing systems by combining the Vector Engine and general x86
servers from other IT vendors while enabling server manufacturers to
develop and market their own-branded vector computing
servers using the Vector Engine.
NEC has already identified and partnered with several system integrators
specializing in the HPC sector, including Colfax International in the
United States and ViSUAL TECHNOLOGY in Japan, to supply the Vector
Engine for their system integration projects. NEC
plans to further expand the partner network so that more end-users will
benefit from NEC’s vector computing solutions.
Kazunori Sudo, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation, said, “On top of
the traditional applications, such as large-scale scientific simulation
systems for weather forecasting, climate modeling and fluid analysis, we
have seen rapidly growing demand from SMEs
for vector computing systems in the field of electromagnetic field
analysis, computational chemistry and structural analysis for instance.
With the launch of the Vector Engine, and by working closely with system
integrators and server manufacturers worldwide,
we will fulfill this expanding need and deliver our innovative
solutions to broader and more diversified customers.”
