• 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