A new press release reports, “NEC X, the innovation accelerator for NEC’s emerging technologies, today announced from the Spark + AI Summit that it is opening the Vector Engine Data Acceleration Center (VEDAC) at its Silicon Valley facility. This new VEDAC is one of the company’s many offerings to innovators, makers and change agents. The NEC X organization is focused on fostering big data innovations using NEC’s emerging technologies while tapping into Silicon Valley’s rich ecosystem. ‘As NEC X continues expanding its presence in the Silicon Valley,’ said Yoshi Suemura, senior vice president of NEC X, ‘We are gratified to see the developing innovations that are taking advantage of the cutting-edge technologies from NEC’s laboratories’.”

The release goes on, “The VEDAC Lab provides servers configured with multiple NEC SX-Aurora vector engine cards running NEC’s Frovedis middleware that is compatible with the Apache Spark™ Machine Learning Framework. It offers remote access to the SX-Aurora TSUBASA™ AI platform for qualified companies, universities and government labs; or physically by entrepreneurs. After login, the VEDAC provides a short series of tutorials to quickly familiarize users with vector processing data analysis acceleration, allowing them to experience big data processing that is an order of magnitude faster than traditional servers. SX-Aurora brings supercomputing performance to a broad range of applications, with its compact and cost-effective PCIe card form factor that fits in everything from workstation towers for a single card, to rack-mounted servers for multiple cards. This platform is also compatible with standard programming languages, such as C, C++ and Fortran.”

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