FUJITSU VX

Fujitsu announced several more vector-parallel supercomputers that took their lead from the VPP500. The Fujitsu VPP300 series and VX series, which used CMOS*1 technology, were introduced in February 1995, the Fujitsu VPP700 series in March 1996, and the VPP5000 series in April 1999. All VPP series supercomputers starting with the VPP300 series used CMOS technology. The single processing-element LINPACK*2 benchmark performance of the VPP5000 series was 1,125 megaFLOPS with 100 elements and 8,759 megaFLOPS with 1,000 elements.