<s>
The	O
SX-9	B-Device
is	O
a	O
NEC	B-Device
SX	I-Device
supercomputer	O
built	O
by	O
NEC	O
Corporation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SX-9	B-Device
Series	O
implements	O
an	O
SMP	B-Operating_System
system	O
in	O
a	O
compact	O
node	O
module	O
and	O
uses	O
an	O
enhanced	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
single	O
chip	O
vector	O
processor	O
that	O
was	O
introduced	O
with	O
the	O
SX-6	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
NEC	B-Device
SX-9	I-Device
processors	O
run	O
at	O
3.2	O
GHz	O
,	O
with	O
eight-way	O
replicated	O
vector	O
pipes	O
,	O
each	O
having	O
two	O
multiply	O
units	O
and	O
two	O
addition	O
units	O
;	O
this	O
results	O
in	O
a	O
peak	O
vector	O
performance	O
of	O
102.4	O
gigaFLOPS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SX-9	B-Device
series	O
ranges	O
from	O
the	O
single-node	O
SX-9/B	O
system	O
with	O
4	O
CPUs	O
to	O
the	O
maximum	O
expansion	O
stage	O
with	O
512	O
nodes	O
,	O
8,192	O
CPUs	O
,	O
and	O
970	O
TFLOPS	O
peak	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
operating	O
system	O
is	O
NEC	O
's	O
SUPER-UX	B-Operating_System
,	O
a	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SX-9	B-Device
had	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
fastest	O
vector	O
CPU	O
core	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SX-9	B-Device
was	O
discontinued	O
in	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
German	O
national	O
meteorological	O
service	O
(	O
DWD	O
)	O
operated	O
two	O
independent	O
SX-9	B-Device
clusters	O
,	O
with	O
976	O
processors	O
,	O
31,232	O
GB	O
of	O
RAM	B-Architecture
and	O
98	O
TFLOPS	O
performance	O
in	O
total	O
.	O
</s>
