Company:PEZY Computing
| Industry | CPU design |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Website | pezy.co.jp |
PEZY Computing is a Japanese fabless computer chip design company specialising in the design of manycore processors for supercomputers.
History
PEZY Computing was founded in 2010.[1]
The company's first manycore processor the PEZY-1 was launched in 2012. A successor the PEZY-SC launched 2014.[2]
In 2015, computers using PEZY processors occupied the top 3 slots on the Green 500 supercomputer list – the most efficient was RIKEN's Shoubu computer with 7.03 GFLOPS/Watt.[3][4]
In late 2016, PEZY and Imagination Technologies announced a partnership to use Imagination's 64-bit MIPS "Warrior" CPUs together with PEZY's SC2 manycore processors in future high performance computing applications.[5]
In early 2017, the PEZY-SC2 chip was launched.[2] In Nov 2017 the Gyoukou supercomputer was unveiled, incorporating PEZY-SC2 chips.[6]
In December 2017, PEZY President Motoaki Saito, and PEZY employee, Daisuke Suzuki, were arrested on a charges of fraud – that is – padding expenses claims to Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to the amount of $3.8 million.[7][2] (¥431 million)[8] In January 2018, further criminal activity was reported as being under investigation by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office – that is a further ¥191 million extracted illegally as subsidies.[8] In July 2018 Daisuke Suzuki received a suspended prison sentence of three years, for his involvement in the fraud - was found to have played a minor associative role to Saito.[9]
Notes
- The name PEZY is an acronym derived from the Greek derived metric prefixs peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yotta-.[7]
References
- ↑ "Company Overview of PEZY Computing K.K.", www.bloomberg.com, https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=286385351, retrieved 22 Jan 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Trader, Tiffany (6 Dec 2017), "PEZY President Arrested, Charged with Fraud", www.hpcwire.com, https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/12/06/pezy-president-arrested-charged-fraud/
- ↑ "PEZY & ExaScaler Step Up on the Green500 List with Immersive Cooling", insidehpc.com, September 23, 2015, http://insidehpc.com/2015/09/pezy-exascaler-step-up-on-the-green500-list-with-immersive-cooling/
- ↑ "国産スパコン"PEZYシステム"がGreen500の1～3位を独占" (in ja), pc.watch.impress.co.jp, 3 Aug 2015, https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/714768.html
- ↑ "PEZY and Imagination team up to develop next-generation HPC systems", www.imgtex.com, 16 Nov 2015, https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/pezy-and-imagination-team-up-to-develop-next-generation-hpc-systems/
- ↑ "At SC17, ExaScaler and PEZY Computing Unveil Gyoukou Supercomputer with a High Combined Green500/Top500 Ranking", globenewswire.com, 16 Nov 2017, https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/11/16/1194431/0/en/At-SC17-ExaScaler-and-PEZY-Computing-Unveil-Gyoukou-Supercomputer-with-a-High-Combined-Green500-Top500-Ranking.html
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), "PEZY president arrested", www.electronicsweekly.com, https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/pezy-president-arrested-2017-12/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Japanese supercomputer venture Pezy Computing suspected of tax evasion", www.japantimes.co.jp, 21 Jan 2018, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/21/national/crime-legal/japanese-supercomputer-venture-pezy-computing-suspected-tax-evasion
- ↑ "Ex-exec of Japanese supercomputer venture gets suspended prison term", www.japantimes.co.jp, 19 Jul 2018, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/19/national/crime-legal/ex-exec-japanese-supercomputer-venture-gets-suspended-prison-term
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