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PEZY Computing

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PEZY Computing
IndustryCPU design
Founded2010
Headquarters
Japan
Websitepezy.co.jp

PEZY Computing is a Japanese fabless computer chip design company specialising in the design of manycore processors for supercomputers.

History

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PEZY Computing was founded in 2010 and it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.[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]

On 21 December 2022, PEZY began a partnership with proteanTecs based out of Israel.[1][10]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Trader, Tiffany (6 Dec 2017), "PEZY President Arrested, Charged with Fraud", www.hpcwire.com
  3. ^ "PEZY & ExaScaler Step Up on the Green500 List with Immersive Cooling", insidehpc.com, September 23, 2015
  4. ^ "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
  5. ^ "PEZY and Imagination Team Up to Develop Next-Generation HPC Systems". HPCwire. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
  6. ^ "At SC17, ExaScaler and PEZY Computing Unveil Gyoukou Supercomputer with a High Combined Green500/Top500 Ranking", globenewswire.com (press release), 16 Nov 2017
  7. ^ a b Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), "PEZY president arrested", www.electronicsweekly.com
  8. ^ a b "Japanese supercomputer venture Pezy Computing suspected of tax evasion", www.japantimes.co.jp, 21 Jan 2018
  9. ^ "Ex-exec of Japanese supercomputer venture gets suspended prison term", www.japantimes.co.jp, 19 Jul 2018
  10. ^ "PEZY Computing Selects proteanTecs to Monitor Die-to-Die Interconnects in Next-Generation Supercomputer Processors". HPCwire. Retrieved 2024-05-28.