Eight-Core Sparc64-VIIIfx 'Venus' Processor Might Power Japanese Supercomputer

After NEC and Hitachi renounced the Project Keisoku contract back in May, a contract which implied that they would put together a hybrid scalar and vector supercomputer (a combination of Sparc processors and a variant of the SX engine from NEC), the Rikagaku Kankyusho research laboratory even... [ read more >> ]