Title :
Overview of the Fujitsu VPP500 supercomputer
Author :
Miura, K. ; Takamura, M. ; Sakamoto, Y. ; Okada, S.
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors present an overview of the Fujitsu VPP500 vector parallel processor. The VPP500 is a high-performance, highly parallel distributed memory system. A crossbar network interconnects 4 to 222 processing elements, which gives a maximum system performance of up to 355 GFLOPS and an aggregate memory capacity of at most 55 Gbyte. The UNIX SVR4-based operating system, modified for the VPP500´s distributed memory environment, supports the FORTRAN77 compiler to present the programmer with a high-performance, shared memory paradigm.<>
Keywords :
parallel processing; vector processor systems; 355 GFLOPS; FORTRAN77 compiler; Fujitsu VPP500 supercomputer; UNIX SVR4-based operating system; crossbar network; highly parallel distributed memory system; vector parallel processor; Aggregates; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Supercomputers; System performance; System software;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '93, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3400-6
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1993.289650
