Title :
Design of the Titan graphics supercomputer
Author :
Miranker, Glen ; Rubinstein, Jon ; Sanguinetti, John
Author_Institution :
Ardent Comput. Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Titan was intended to be a personal visualization tool, i.e. a machine that would allow an engineer or scientist to model a physical entity and then visualize the results of the model. This was achieved by the use of several technologies, namely, dense CMOS gate arrays, a commercial RISC IPU (reduced-instruction-set computer instruction processing unit), and pipelinable floating-point units, and known effective architecture features. The opportunities and costs of these technologies and the architectural decisions that resulted in the successful development of Titan are discussed
Keywords :
computer graphic equipment; parallel processing; reduced instruction set computing; Titan graphics supercomputer; commercial RISC IPU; dense CMOS gate arrays; model; personal visualization tool; pipelinable floating-point units; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Costs; Graphics; Reduced instruction set computing; Semiconductor device modeling; Supercomputers; Visualization;
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.1989.47162
