Title :
Single-user supercomputers or how I got rid of the BLAS
Author_Institution :
Dana Comput. Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
fDate :
Feb. 29 1988-March 3 1988
Abstract :
A description is given of the Titan, a supercomputer with a price tag that makes it possible to devote the entire machine to a single user. Peak floating-point performance is 64 MFLOPS (million floating-point instructions per second). The Titan compilers automatically vectorize and parallelize standard code. Powerful, integrated graphics allow visualization of the results of computational experiments. The use of the LINPACK Benchmark to analyze how well such computers approach their peak performance ratings is discussed.<>
Keywords :
parallel machines; performance evaluation; 64 MFLOPS; BLAS; LINPACK Benchmark; Titan; Titan compilers; floating-point performance; integrated graphics; parallel machines; performance evaluation; supercomputers; Bandwidth; Code standards; Computer graphics; Hardware; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Power engineering computing; Registers; Supercomputers; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '88. Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0828-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1988.4909
