Aizu supercomputer: a massively parallel system for virtual reality problems

Author

Ikedo, Tsuneo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Hardware, Aizu Univ., Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

15-17 Mar 1995

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The Aizu supercomputer is a massively parallel system suited to the solution of virtual reality problems and the support of multimedia applications. It employs a highly parallel MIMD architecture using a conflict-free internetwork system. The scalable communication system consists of two networks: a pyramid network and a reconfigurable network using optical links. The Aizu Supercomputer has a cluster configuration and a shared memory. Each PE includes 113 SPECmark and one cluster is organized with 8 PEs. In the trial production, the supercomputer will include 1365 PEs with more than 100 GFlops at peak performance

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; multimedia computing; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; parallel machines; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; virtual reality; 100 GFLOPS; 113 SPECmark; Aizu supercomputer; cluster configuration; conflict-free internetwork system; highly parallel MIMD architecture; massively parallel system; multimedia applications; optical links; peak performance; pyramid network; reconfigurable network; scalable communication system; shared memory; virtual reality problems; Communication networks; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Memory management; Optical fiber communication; Reduced instruction set computing; Supercomputers; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, 1995. Proceedings., First Aizu International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fukushima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7038-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AISPAS.1995.401355

Filename

401355