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1992
Hardware Description
The VPP500 was Fujitsu’s new “vector-parallel” supercomputer. Fujitsu announced the supercomputer in September 1992 as being the world’s fastest performing supercomputer at the time with a speed of 355 gigaFLOPS. Fujitsu arranged briefcase-sized processor units, each capable of vector processing, in parallel to obtain this performance. Fujitsu connected 222 processor units in parallel to reach 355 gigaFLOPS.
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Model Number:
VPP500 -
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Hardware Type:
Computer - SuperComputer -
Manufacture Year:
1992 -
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