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The NEC SX-3 supercomputer system is a high-speed and large-scale supercomputer system employed multiple vector pipelines and multiprocessor configurations. The system realized a machine cycle time of 2.9 nsec by employing high-speed 20000 gate VLSI chip with 70 psec switching speed and high-density packaging system. The SX-3 supports the Super-UX operating system based on the AT & T System V UNIX and the vectorizing and parallelizing Fortran compiler.
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Watanabe, T. (1993). NEC SX-3 Supercomputer System. In: Fujii, K. (eds) Supercomputers and Their Performance in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 37. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87863-2_4
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