By Architecture Technology Corpor (Auth.)
ISBN-10: 1856171248
ISBN-13: 9781856171243
Please be aware this can be a brief ebook. completely revised and up-to-date, this year's record includes priceless info investigating the impression of supercomputing know-how on info processing within the close to time period and its impression for the following 5 years. the data and knowledge during this file are severe in delivering: info at the measurement of every of the technical computing segments, how many of every is made from vector and parallel platforms now, and what that percent might be by means of 1995. for every technical computing segments, the record offers greenback volumes, devices shipped, person industries, functions, working method specifications, vector stocks of industry and installations. discover which computing segments and vectors convey the best promise for development and profitability. The technical facets influencing the improvement of supercomputing architectures and the gains riding their person reputation are analyzed. The document additionally presents fast industry possibilities through discussing kinds of functions that would profit so much from supercomputing expertise
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For example, the Meiko Computing Surface employs 32-bit VLSI processors in a planar array with user-specified edge connections. Each node is a 20-MHz, 10-mips, or 1mflop processor with 256K to 2-Mbytes RAM per processor and four 20-Mbps autonomous message channels mounted with four such computing elements per system board. In 1988 the system was updated with the Inmos T800 64-bit chip replacing the original T414 transputer. Once an external communication link has been initiated by the processor, it is completely free to continue execution of another process while the link DMA processors take care of message passing, only stealing single memory cycles from the processor when a complete word of the message is passed between link and store.
Compatibility - system software allows convenient interfaces to other systems. Attaining such software engineering goals is a consequence of the choice of programming language, operating system, development environment and software tools available. For concurrent programming on parallel machines, it also depends on the availability of algorithms for concurrent processing applications. If concurrent processing is to be successful, the user must be able to locate suitable algorithms for given applications and implement them successfully.
An Intel Delta Touchstone prototype was installed at the Caltech Concurrent Computing Facility in March, 1991. It contains 572 Intel 80860 processors and boasts of 33 Gflops. 2 Bus-Oriented Systems The binary hypercube interconnection architecture is a rather general topology since it raises the nearestneighbor connection scheme from two to three, four, five, or more dimensions. Bus-oriented systems are slightly more general than hypercubes since they allow somewhat more flexible interconnection schemes.