One Year with an iPSC/SSO

This paper describes experiences over the past year with an the Intel iPSC/860, a distributed memory MIMD parallel computer based on the Intel i860 floating point processor. The system at NASA Ames Research Center has 128 nodes, and a theoretical peak performance of over seven GFLOPS. This paper describes the system at Ames Research Center, talks about system stability, compiler performance measured by the NAS kernels, and results from a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics application.

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