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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (3627)11/20/1997 4:15:00 PM
From: Edward Smyth  Read Replies (1) of 14451
 
NEC SX family

Message from John M. Zulauf on Nov 20 1997 11:21AM EST
>NEC SX (several models, some faster, some slower vs.
>128proc 02K) don't know much about this one. Installed
>base -- 29 of the top 500 -- 4 outside Japan.
>...
>Thats 6 commercially available, only two of which could
>be considered "server" competition (the HP and the NEC SX).

The NEC SX family are vector machines, and so are competing
in the same market as the Cray J90 & T90 and the Fujitsu vpp.
They wouldn't make a good general purpose server.

The IBM SP2 on the other hand can be used for a wide variety
of tasks.

Ed
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