Hitachi SR8000

The Hitachi SR8000 is a high-performance supercomputer manufactured by the Hitachi c. 2001. It comprises 4 to 512 nodes, each containing multiple Hitachi RISC microprocessors. Cooperative microprocessors are assigned to the same address space for synchronicity within each node.

In 2002, Yasumasa Kanada calculated the decimal expansion of pi to 1.24 trillion digits using this model.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/hpc/eng/sr81e.html Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine Hitachi SR8000
  2. ↑ "SR8000 DETAIL". Hitachi. Archived from the original on 2000-06-17.
  3. ↑ "HI-UX/MPP for SR8000 : Middleware & Platform Software : Hitachi".