Using Transputer Computing Systems at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics

By the beginning of 1990-ies, parallel architectures started to apply in microprocessor systems. At that time, the transputer architecture was considered to be the most prospective one, i.e., an architecture of specialized microprocessors to be used in parallel computations with the capability to create a computational environment with a multitude of processors. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences a number of projects were developed with using such computational systems for a variety of objectives: controllers of CAMAC systems in various control and management systems for physical plants, systems for data acquisition and processing in the VME standard, accelerating boards for IBM PCs to perform data processing and modeling.