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{{Infobox OS
| name = SUPER-UX
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| website = hide <!-- last valid snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20080506045212/http://www.nec.de/hpc/software/super-ux/index.html -->
| developer = [[NEC]]
| family = [[Unix System V]]
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| latest_release_version = R21.1 <ref>[ftp://ftp.hpce.nec.com/pub/sxu/DOC/relmemo/ SUPER-UX documentation]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> <ref>[http://www.support.hpce.nec.com/patches.php Kernel Correction]</ref>
| latest_release_date = {{start date and age|2014|03}}
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| marketing_target = [[Supercomputing]]
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| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| working_state = Discontinued
| supported_platforms = [[NEC SX]] supercomputers
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'''SUPER-UX''' was a version of the [[Unix]] [[operating system]] from [[NEC]] that is used on its [[NEC SX|SX]] series of [[supercomputer]]s.<ref name="1993-watanabe" />

==History==
The initial version of SUPER-UX was based on [[UNIX System V]] [[UNIX_System_V#SVR3|version 3.1]] with features from [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] 4.3.<ref name="1989-super-ux" /><ref name="1996-sx4" /><ref name="1991-ijhsc-sx3" /> The version for the [[NEC SX-9]] was based on [[UNIX_System_V#SVR4.2_/_UnixWare|SVR4.2MP]] with BSD enhancements.<ref name="2018-NEC-Super-UX-SX-9" />
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| 11.1 || 2000/12/08 ||
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==Features==
SUPER-UX is a 64-bit UNIX operating system.<ref name="1989-super-ux" /> It supports the Supercomputer File System (SFS).<ref name="1989-super-ux" />

==Earth Simulator==
The [[Earth Simulator]] uses a custom OS called "ESOS" (Earth Simulator Operating System) based on SUPER-UX.<ref name="2005-atsuya-es" /><ref name="2004-parallel-computing-es" /><ref name="2006-VECPAR" /> It has many enhanced features custom designed for the Earth Simulator which are not in the regular SUPER-UX OS.<ref name="2005-atsuya-es" />

==See also==
* [[EWS-UX]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em
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<ref name="1996-sx4">{{cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=S.W. |last2=Loft |first2=R.D. |last3=Tannenbaum |first3=P.D. |chapter=Architecture and Application: The Performance of the NEC SX-4 on the NCAR Benchmark Suite |title=Supercomputing '96:Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing |date=1996 |doi= 10.1109/SC.1996.5 |chapter-url=http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aries/papers/vector/hammond.pdf |access-date=25 August 2018}}</ref>
<ref name="1991-ijhsc-sx3">{{cite journal |last1=IWAYA |first1=AKIHIRO |title=The Parallel Processing Feature of the NEC SX-3 Supercomputer System |last2=WATANABE |first2=TADASHI |journal=International Journal of High Speed Computing |date=September 1991 |volume=03 |issue=3n04 |pages=187–197 |doi=10.1142/S0129053391000085 }}</ref>
<ref name="1993-watanabe">{{cite book |last1=Watanabe |first1=Tadashi |title=Supercomputers and Their Performance in Computational Fluid Dynamics |chapter=NEC SX-3 Supercomputer System |date=1993 |volume=37 |pages=63–75 |doi=10.1007/978-3-322-87863-2_4 |isbn=978-3-528-07637-5 }}</ref>
<ref name="2006-VECPAR">{{cite book |last1=Carter |first1=Jonathan |last2=Oliker |first2=Leonid |last3=Shalf |first3=John |title=High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2006 |chapter=Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on Modern Parallel Vector Systems |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=4395 |date=10 June 2006 |pages=490–503 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_38 |chapter-url=https://crd.lbl.gov/assets/pubs_presos/CDS/ATG/LNCS07-vector.pdf |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |language=en|isbn=978-3-540-71350-0 }}</ref>
<ref name="1989-super-ux">{{cite book  |doi=10.1145/76263.76348 |chapter-url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/1989/341/00/05348947.pdf |access-date=25 August 2018 |isbn=0897913418 |chapter=High performance file system for supercomputing environment |title=Proceedings of the 1989 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing - Supercomputing '89 |pages=747–756 |year=1989 |last1=Nishino |first1=H. |last2=Naka |first2=S. |last3=Ikumi |first3=K. |last4=Leslie |first4=W. |s2cid=1220077 }}</ref>
<ref name="2004-parallel-computing-es">{{cite journal |last1=Yanagawa |first1=Takashi |last2=Suehiro |first2=Kenji |title=Software system of the Earth Simulator |journal=Parallel Computing |date=December 2004 |volume=30 |issue=12 |pages=1315–1327 |doi=10.1016/j.parco.2004.09.005 }}</ref>
<ref name="2005-atsuya-es">{{cite journal |last1=Uno |first1=Atsuya |title=Software of the Earth Simulator |journal=Journal of the Earth Simulator |date=2005 |volume=3 |pages=52–59 |doi=10.32131/jes.3.59 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |bibcode=2005JES.....3...52U |citeseerx=10.1.1.528.9349 }}</ref>
<ref name="2018-NEC-Super-UX-SX-9">{{cite web |last1=TOMARU |first1=Hiroku |last2=MIYAZAKI |first2=Emiko |last3=OHTANI |first3=Atsuhisa |last4=SATAKE |first4=Koji |last5=SAKAI |first5=Satoshi |last6=KITAGAWA |first6=Toshiyuki |title=Outline of the SUPER-UX, Operating System for the SX-9 |url=https://www.nec.com/en/global/techrep/journal/g08/n04/pdf/080410.pdf |publisher=NEC |access-date=25 August 2018}}</ref>
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==External links==
*[http://de.nec.com/de_DE/emea/products/hpc/ NEC Europe HPC]
*[http://jpn.nec.com/hpc/ NEC Japan HPC]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080506045212/http://www.nec.de/hpc/software/super-ux/index.html Official NEC SUPER-UX page, Archived 6 May 2008]

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