MIMD SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS

The numerical simulation becomes increasingly important day by day in domains which are more and more diverse: aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structural analysis, nuclear weapons, weather prediction, etc. [1]. The needs in computation power are unmeasurable and far from the possibilities available today [2][3]. The super­computers which are on the market at the present time are the result of technological progress. Although this is important in itself, we have not yet been able to bridge the gap between the needs and the possibilities offered. The supercomputer designers have realized that the solution to this problem lies with the coming of the multiprocessors.