DocumentCode
1886145
Title
The Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer: design philosophies, decisions and trade-offs
Author
Rau, B. Ramakrishna ; Yen, David W L ; Yen, Wei ; Towle, Ross A.
Author_Institution
Cydrome Inc., Milpitas, CA, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1989
fDate
3-6 Jan 1989
Firstpage
202
Abstract
The Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer is a comparatively moderately priced supercomputer intended for use by small work groups or departments of scientists and engineers. It is priced at about the same level as a high-end superminicomputer but is able to achieve about one-fourth to two-thirds the performance of a supercomputer. The discussion covers the Cydra 5 system architecture, the directed data-flow architecture on which it is based, the selection of the numeric processor, and the main memory system
Keywords
parallel processing; Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer; decisions; design philosophies; directed data-flow architecture; engineers; main memory system; numeric processor; scientists; system architecture; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; High performance computing; Memory management; Microprocessors; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Programming profession; Supercomputers; Technological innovation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Sciences, 1989. Vol.I: Architecture Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location
Kailua-Kona, HI
Print_ISBN
0-8186-1911-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HICSS.1989.47160
Filename
47160
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