March 25, 2020
Looking for EIRs
Edit: The job role has been filled, thank you to all who applied! NEC X is excited to invite Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) to drive forward our mission of disrupting and transforming industries with us. Here is the overview of upcoming startup projects we want to find EIRs for: Review Recommendation Accepting a natural language demand via text or […]
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December 11, 2019
NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on...
In this video from SC19, Erich Focht from NEC describes how the company’s SX-Aurora vector architecture achieves extreme energy efficiency on the HPCG benchmark. He then goes on to provide an update on how NEC is bringing open source machine learning frameworks to their computing platform. Watch the video interview from insideHPC.com
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December 11, 2019
NEC Enhances SX-Aurora Vector Processors at...
In this video from SC19, Shintaro Momose from NEC describes recent enhancements to the SX-Aurora vector computing platform and how extreme energy efficiency helped the company win major contracts with DWD in Germany and the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) in Japan. Watch the video interview from insideHPC.com
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December 10, 2019
NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on...
NEC SX-Aurora Tops Energy Efficiency on HPCG Benchmark. Read the full article from insideHPC.com
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November 12, 2019
NEC receives order for a new...
Tokyo, November 12, 2019 – NEC Corporation today announced that it received an order for the “NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA” supercomputer from the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), a research institute belonging to Japan’s National Institutes of Natural Sciences. The system is scheduled to commence operation in June 2020. NIFS cooperates with universities and research institutions in Japan […]
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July 4, 2019
NEC Steps up with SX-Aurora Vector...
In this video from ISC 2019, Shintaro Momose, Ph. D. from NEC describes the company’s SX-Aurora Vector Engine. Read the full article and watch the video interview from insideHPC.com
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June 17, 2019
NEC received a 50 Million Euro...
Tokyo, June 17, 2019 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it received an order with a value of 50 Million Euro for a supercomputer “NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA” from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the German weather forecasting service located in Offenbach, Germany, one of Europe’s major meteorological service agencies. DWD provides meteorological and climatological services to […]
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April 23, 2019
NEC X Opens Vector Engine Data...
Enables Users to Experience Vector Processing Benefits for Big Data Analytics on SX-Aurora TSUBASA™ AI Platform with Frovedis Framework, Compliant with Apache Spark™ and Cloudera Quality Assurance Test Suite SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 23, 2019 — NEC X, the innovation accelerator for NEC’s emerging technologies, today announced from the Spark + AI Summit that it is opening the […]
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July 20, 2018
NEC Accelerates Machine Learning with Vector...
In this video from ISC 2018, Takeo Hosomi from NEC describes how vector computing can accelerate Machine Learning workloads. Read the full article and watch video interview from insideHPC.com
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October 25, 2017
Vectors are Back: The new NEC...
Today NEC Corporation launched their new high-end HPC product line, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA. This new platform drastically increases processing performance and scalability on real world applications, aiming for the traditional application areas, such as science and engineering, but also targeting the new fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analytics. With this new […]
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