Japanese project aims at supercomputer that executes 10 gflops

Journal Article · Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 1984 · Electron. Des.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5137754

Burskey, D

Dubbed supercom by its multicompany design team, the decade-long project's goal is an engineering supercomputer that can execute 10 billion floating-point operations/s-about 20 times faster than today's supercomputers. The project, guided by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology encompasses three parallel research programs, all aimed at some angle of the superconductor. One program should lead to superfast logic and memory circuits, another to a system architecture that will afford the best performance, and the last to the software that will ultimately control the computer. The work on logic and memory chips is based on: GAAS circuit; Josephson junction devices; and high electron mobility transistor structures. The architecture will involve parallel processing.

• OSTI ID: 5137754
• Journal Information: Electron. Des.; (United States), Vol. 9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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