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 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The name “PEZY” is an acronym derived from the Greek metric prefixs peta-, exa-, zetta-, and yotta-.[2]
The company develops manycore processors for high-performance computing. Its first processor, the PEZY-1, was introduced in 2012, followed by the PEZY-SC, launched 2014.[3]
In 2015, computers using PEZY processors occupied the top three positions on the Green 500 supercomputer list. One of the most efficient being RIKEN‘s Shoubu computer with 7.03 GFLOPS/Watt.[4][5]
The company has collaborated with other technology firms, including a 2016 partnership with Imagination Technologies to integrate MIPS-based CPUs with PEZY’s manycore processors for high performance computing applications.[6]
In early 2017, the PEZY-SC2 chip was launched.[3] In November 2017 the Gyoukou supercomputer was unveiled, incorporating PEZY-SC2 chips.[7]
In December 2017, president Motoaki Saito, and employee, Daisuke Suzuki, were arrested on fraud charges related to inflated expense claims submitted to Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).[8][3][9] Subsequent investigations identified additional improperly obtained subsidies, and in 2018 Suzuki received a suspended prison sentence for his involvement.[9][10]
On 21 December 2022, PEZY began a partnership with proteanTecs based out of Israel.[1][11]
References
- ^ a b proteanTecs. “PEZY Computing Selects proteanTecs to Monitor Die-to-Die Interconnects in Next-Generation Supercomputer Processors”. www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
- ^ Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), “PEZY president arrested”, www.electronicsweekly.com
- ^ a b c Trader, Tiffany (6 Dec 2017), “PEZY President Arrested, Charged with Fraud”, www.hpcwire.com
- ^ “PEZY & ExaScaler Step Up on the Green500 List with Immersive Cooling”, insidehpc.com, September 23, 2015
- ^ “国産スパコン”PEZYシステム”がGreen500の1～3位を独占”, pc.watch.impress.co.jp (in Japanese), 3 Aug 2015
- ^ “PEZY and Imagination Team Up to Develop Next-Generation HPC Systems”. HPCwire. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
- ^ “At SC17, ExaScaler and PEZY Computing Unveil Gyoukou Supercomputer with a High Combined Green500/Top500 Ranking”, globenewswire.com (press release), 16 Nov 2017
- ^ Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), “PEZY president arrested”, www.electronicsweekly.com
- ^ a b “Japanese supercomputer venture Pezy Computing suspected of tax evasion”, www.japantimes.co.jp, 21 Jan 2018
- ^ “Ex-exec of Japanese supercomputer venture gets suspended prison term”, www.japantimes.co.jp, 19 Jul 2018
- ^ “PEZY Computing Selects proteanTecs to Monitor Die-to-Die Interconnects in Next-Generation Supercomputer Processors”. HPCwire. Retrieved 2024-05-28.