The Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology and the El´brus family of high-speed computers

Author

Wolcott, Peter ; Dorojevets, Mikhail N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Quantitative Anal., Nebraska Univ., Omaha, NE, USA

Volume

20

Issue

1

fYear

1998

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

14

Abstract

The Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology was the dominant developer of high speed systems in the Soviet Union from 1950 through to the end of the cold war. One of its principal lines of development was the El´brus family of multiprocessors. The El´brus-1 and El´brus-2 show the strong influence of design ideas implemented in the Burroughs 700 family but exhibit a variety of innovative architectural features, particularly in the creation of a stack based CPU capable of instruction level parallelism and dynamic instruction scheduling. Both systems suffered from long and problematic development cycles

Keywords

government policies; history; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; parallel programming; processor scheduling; Burroughs 700 family; El brus high speed computers; El brus-1; El brus-2; Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Technology; Soviet Union; dynamic instruction scheduling; innovative architectural features; instruction level parallelism; multiprocessors; problematic development cycles; stack based CPU; Central Processing Unit; Decision support systems; Dynamic scheduling; Fiber reinforced plastics; Military computing; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/85.646204

Filename

646204