Title :
The Horizon supercomputing system: architecture and software
Author :
Kuehn, James T. ; Smith, Burton J.
Author_Institution :
Supercomput. Res. Center, Lanham, MD, USA
Abstract :
An overview is given of Horizon, a shared-memory multiple-instruction-stream-multiple-data-stream computer architecture currently under study. Its performance target is a sustained rate of 100 GFLOPS (billions of floating-point operators per second), using a few hundred identical scalar processors. The Horizon architecture is described and its performance is estimated. The processor instruction set and a simple programming example are given
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel machines; parallel programming; Horizon supercomputing system; performance; processor instruction set; scalar processors; shared-memory MIMD computer architecture; shared-memory multiple-instruction-stream-multiple-data-stream computer architecture; software; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Delay; Interference; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Software systems; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '88. [Vol.1]., Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0882-X
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1988.44631
