NEC Server offers High-Speed Processing of Big Data

NEC Corporation is providing a new addition to the Express5800 IA server series, the “Express5800/HR120a-1”. Sales of the server have begun in Japan and availability is expected to steadily expand to markets throughout the world. 

The Express5800/HR120a-1 features the latest Intel architecture, including the Intel Xeon Phi family, supporting Many Integrated Core (MIC) and super-parallel processing that existing servers struggle to perform.  Furthermore, the server is equipped with NEC’s I/O symmetric architecture, enabling up to 15 times the processing performance of existing machines. 

“This new product provides high-speed, real-time processing at a low cost during a time that big data is drawing greater attention as a key for handling the needs of complex systems such as image analysis for security systems, inspection systems for production lines and processing for a wide range of unstructured data,” said Kazuaki Iwamoto, General Manager, Server Division, NEC.

The key features of the Express5800/HR120a-1 include concurrent parallel processing capability as high as 520 threads and support up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 family products. 

The system also supports Intel MIC architecture and a core that achieves 4 threads while accommodating more than 50 units of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor on as many as 2 PCI boards. As a result, one server is capable of executing as many as 520 threads of parallel processing at the same time.