Title :
The Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer: design philosophies, decisions and trade-offs
Author :
Rau, B. Ramakrishna ; Yen, David W L ; Yen, Wei ; Towle, Ross A.
Author_Institution :
Cydrome Inc., Milpitas, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer is a comparatively moderately priced supercomputer intended for use by small work groups or departments of scientists and engineers. It is priced at about the same level as a high-end superminicomputer but is able to achieve about one-fourth to two-thirds the performance of a supercomputer. The discussion covers the Cydra 5 system architecture, the directed data-flow architecture on which it is based, the selection of the numeric processor, and the main memory system
Keywords :
parallel processing; Cydra 5 Departmental Supercomputer; decisions; design philosophies; directed data-flow architecture; engineers; main memory system; numeric processor; scientists; system architecture; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; High performance computing; Memory management; Microprocessors; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Programming profession; Supercomputers; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1989. Vol.I: Architecture Track, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kailua-Kona, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1911-2
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1989.47160
