Earth Simulator

Earth Simulator is the fastest supercomputer in the world. NEC had first built this Japanese machine. Earth simulator uses Parallel Vector Architecture to achieve a peak performance of 40 F Flops. This system configured in 640 nodes of 8 vector processors each connected together by crossbar switch. Each node has a shared memory of 16 GB (total 10 TB). This Japanese machine was built to analyze climate change, including global warming, as well as weather and earthquake patterns. Earth simulator has the power to create a “virtual planet earth” using its large processing capability. The vector processor used in this is fabricated in a single chip with 0.15-micron CMOS technology.



More details :