I'm sure it's used for all sorts of industrial purposes, but Fugaku/K seemed a bit of solution in search of problem since NEC backed off(~2009). They were supposed to supply vector processing cluster interconnected with Fujitsu supplied scalar cluster that became K, but cancelled it stating vector processing is an outdated concept not worth pursuing during cash crunch the company was going through.
I can't seem to find a lot of technical documents regarding NEC SX processors online, but I could find outrageously priced PCIe accelerator cards(released 2021, $18k, 300W, 4.91TF FP32, 48GB VRAM) that are supposed to be its descendants, while Fugaku sits there GPU-less, maybe such is the life.
I can't seem to find a lot of technical documents regarding NEC SX processors online, but I could find outrageously priced PCIe accelerator cards(released 2021, $18k, 300W, 4.91TF FP32, 48GB VRAM) that are supposed to be its descendants, while Fugaku sits there GPU-less, maybe such is the life.