The Hitachi SR8000 is a high-performance
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
manufactured by the Japanese
Hitachi Ltd.
() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo Gr ...
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
was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of . He set the record 11 of the past 21 times.
Kanada was a professor in the Department of Information Science at ...
calculated the decimal expansion of
pi to 1.24 trillion digits using this model.
References
External links
Hitachi SR8000 in Historical Computers in Japan
Hitachi
Hitachi supercomputers
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