"Earth Simulator System" Achieves World's Top Computing Efficiency on the LINPACK Benchmark


NEC Corporation today announced the renewed "Earth Simulator System," that NEC deployed for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (President: Yasuhiro Kato, herein after: JAMSTEC), an independent administrative organization, on March 1, 2009, achieved a sustained performance of 122.4 TFLOPS and computing efficiency of 93.38% on the LINPACK benchmark.

This system secured Japan's No.1 sustained performance position (no.16 worldwide) and achieved the world's top position in terms of computing efficiency according to the "TOP500 Supercomputing Sites," published in November 2008.

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