A new transputer design from West German startup
TL;DRAbstract
In one of the first supercomputer efforts to emerge from Europe, Parsytec GmbH is taking a good idea and expanding on it. The Aachen, West Germany, company is building its Megaframe Supercluster around the 32-bit transputer from Inmos Ltd. By clustering transputers and tying them together with the transputer's communication channels, the company's system reaches data-exchange rates fast enough to give it a supercomputer's level of performance. The Supercluster uses interprocessor communications to split a computing task into many parallel subtasks. These subtasks exchange data and control information over a large number of dedicated, point-to-point communication channels, thereby avoiding the bottlenecking inherent in a bus architecture. The architecture is modular, so more clusters can be added, increasing the system's speed.
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
In one of the first supercomputer efforts to emerge from Europe, Parsytec GmbH is taking a good idea and expanding on it. The Aachen, West Germany, company is building its Megaframe Supercluster around the 32-bit transputer from Inmos Ltd. By clustering transputers and tying them together with the transputer's communication channels, the company's system reaches data-exchange rates fast enough to give it a supercomputer's level of performance. The Supercluster uses interprocessor communications to split a computing task into many parallel subtasks. These subtasks exchange data and control information over a large number of dedicated, point-to-point communication channels, thereby avoiding the bottlenecking inherent in a bus architecture. The architecture is modular, so more clusters can be added, increasing the system's speed.
Keywords
Chat
Click to start Chat