Title :
The Supercomputer Toolkit and its applications
Author :
Abelson, Harold ; Berlin, Andrew A. ; Katzenelson, Jacob ; Mcallister, William H. ; Rozas, Guillermo J. ; Sussman, Gerald Jay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The Supercomputer Toolkit, a proposed family of standard hardware and software components from which special-purpose machines can be easily configured, is introduced. Using the Toolkit, a scientist or an engineer, starting with a suitable computational problem, will be able to readily configure a special-purpose multiprocessor that attains supercomputer-class performance on that problem, at a fraction of the cost of a general purpose supercomputer. Some applications, the hardware, and the software are described
Keywords :
parallel processing; special purpose computers; Supercomputer Toolkit; computational problem; performance; software components; special-purpose machines; special-purpose multiprocessor; standard hardware; Assembly; Cables; Computational modeling; Costs; Hardware; Jacobian matrices; Parallel processing; Software standards; Software tools; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology, 1990. 'Next Decade in Information Technology', Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on (Cat. No.90TH0326-9)
Conference_Location :
Jerusalem
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2078-1
DOI :
10.1109/JCIT.1990.128271
