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Title: Experience with a multiprocessor based on eight FPS 120B array processors

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OSTI ID:6496548

The rate of increase in the speed of monoprocessors is no longer keeping pace with the needs of the laboratory; accordingly, the use of parallel processors in large scientific computations is being investigated. As an initial experiment, a particle-in-cell plasma simulation was adapted to run on a star graph architecture consisting of a UNIVAC 1110 as hub, and up to eight Floating Point Systems AP120B array processors at the other vertices. Subdivision of tasks among processors and measured results are discussed.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
6496548
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-81-1082; CONF-810424-3
Resource Relation:
Conference: ARRAY user's annual conference, St Louis, MO, USA, 26 Apr 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English