One problem posed to Cray Research Inc and Control Data’s ETA Systems by the Japanese thrust into supercomputers is the threat that they will lose sales in non-aligned countries, and NEC Corp has received an order for one of its SX machines from a Singapore government agency, the Computer Engineering Centre: the SX-1A, will be used for research and development, and also remote computing services; the SX-1A is at the bottom end of the range and is rated at 665MFLOPS; no value.
NEC RECEIVES ORDER FOR ITS SX MACHINE FROM SINGAPORE
