Design of the Titan graphics supercomputer

Author

Miranker, Glen ; Rubinstein, Jon ; Sanguinetti, John

Author_Institution

Ardent Comput. Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1989

fDate

3-6 Jan 1989

Firstpage

223

Abstract

The Titan was intended to be a personal visualization tool, i.e. a machine that would allow an engineer or scientist to model a physical entity and then visualize the results of the model. This was achieved by the use of several technologies, namely, dense CMOS gate arrays, a commercial RISC IPU (reduced-instruction-set computer instruction processing unit), and pipelinable floating-point units, and known effective architecture features. The opportunities and costs of these technologies and the architectural decisions that resulted in the successful development of Titan are discussed

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; parallel processing; reduced instruction set computing; Titan graphics supercomputer; commercial RISC IPU; dense CMOS gate arrays; model; personal visualization tool; pipelinable floating-point units; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Costs; Graphics; Reduced instruction set computing; Semiconductor device modeling; Supercomputers; Visualization;

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.1989.47162

Filename

47162