The Hitachi SR8000 is a high-performance supercomputer manufactured by the Hitachi c. 2001. It comprises 4 to 512 nodes, each containing multiple Hitachi RISC microprocessors.http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/hpc/eng/sr81e.html Hitachi SR8000 Cooperative microprocessors are assigned to the same address space for synchronicity within each node.
In 2002, Yasumasa Kanada calculated the decimal expansion of pi to 1.24 trillion digits using this model.
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External links Hitachi SR8000 in Historical Computers in Japan