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, retrieved 22 Jan 2018
- ^ 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", www.imgtex.com (press release), 16 Nov 2015
- ^ "At SC17, ExaScaler and PEZY Computing Unveil Gyoukou Supercomputer with a High Combined Green500/Top500 Ranking", globenewswire.com (press release), 16 Nov 2017
- ^ a b 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