NEC Vector Engine
Developer	NEC
Manufacturer	TSMC
Type	Vector processors
Introduction	2017 (announced)
Production	2018
µarch	SX-Aurora
Word size	64 bit 8 octets 16 nibbles
Process	16 nm 0.016 μm 1.6e-5 mm
Technology	CMOS

Vector Engine (VE) is a family of vector processors designed as PCIe accelerator cards designed by NEC.

Overview

NEC introduced the Vector Engine (VE) in 2017 as the successor to the SX line of supercomputers. VEs depart from all prior generations by departing from the traditional self-hosted vector processor and nodes. With the introduction of the Vector Engine, NEC moved to an accelerator card architecture whereby a Vector Engine (VE) PCIe card are installed onto standard x86 server which serves as the Vector Host (VH).

Members

Type 10

See also: nec/microarchitectures/sx-aurora and SX-Aurora

Vector Engine Type 10 (VE10) are first-generation Vector Engines. Those processors are based on the SX-Aurora microarchitecture and are fabricated on TSMC 16 nm process. Type 10 features eight vector cores along with six HBM2 stacks.

• Proc' 16 nm process
• Mem 24 GiB / 48 GiB
• HBM 4-Hi (750 GB/s) / 8-Hi (1.2 TB/s) HBM2
• Perf 2.150-2.458 teraFLOPS

See also

• vector processors