PEZY Computing

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

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

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

References
  1. "Company Overview of PEZY Computing K.K.", www,bloomberg.com, retrieved 22 Jan 2018
  2. 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", www.imgtex.com (press release), 16 Nov 2015
  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. Manners, David (5 Dec 2017), "PEZY president arrested", www.electronicsweekly.com
  8. "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
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