DocumentCode
1718739
Title
Massively parallel systems you can trust
Author
Horst, R.
Author_Institution
Tandem Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
fYear
1994
Firstpage
236
Lastpage
241
Abstract
Massively parallel systems are needed to address the performance requirements of many current and future commercial applications. These applications require systems that can be trusted protect the integrity of data, to continue operation in spite of failures, and to provide scalable performance to serve ever-increasing customer needs. The design of current scientific MPPs has not considered many of these commercial requirements. Tandem has developed systems that have been designed specifically to address both the reliability and performance requirements for large commercial applications. The recently introduced Himalaya Range with the TorusNet interconnection architecture extends the capabilities of Tandem systems into the range of massively parallel systems. Recent benchmarks have demonstrated both the scalability and fault-tolerance of these systems.<>
Keywords
data integrity; parallel architectures; parallel machines; parallel programming; security of data; Himalaya Range; Tandem; TorusNet interconnection architecture; customer needs; fault-tolerance; integrity; massively parallel systems; performance requirements; scalability; scalable performance; scientific MPPs; Application software; Business; Costs; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Protection; Scalability; Transaction databases;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-8186-5380-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282917
Filename
282917
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