Finally, a chronology of cray vector systems is presented from the cray 1 in 1976 to the cray x2 in 2007. Download fulltext pdf study of supercomputers architecture, application and its future use conference paper pdf available july 20 with 2,335 reads. A bus is a highly nonscalable architecture, because only one processor can communicate on the bus at a time. Front cover has a blue color photograph of a cray computer. With its significant innovations in architecture and technology, the cray2 series of. Brief history of computer architecture evolution and.
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This paper describes the cray1, discusses the evolution of its architecture, and gives an account of some of the problems that were overcome during its. The cray1 computer system communications of the acm. There are two basic types of nodes in any cray xc30. The cray1 is the only computer to have been built to date that satisfies erdas class vi requirement a computer capable of processing from 20 to 60 million floating point operations per second 1. Asenjo city bank puerto rico abstract an analysis of the cray is architecture based on dataflow graphs is presented.
It is therefore built from many thousands of individual nodes. Th e ibm power 1 architecture, used in the rs6000 line, is based on these ideas, and the powerpc is a variation of the power 1. The cray 1 computer system school of computer science. Srini computer science department university of alabama birmingham, al 35294 jorge f. The large memory and high performance of the cray 2 series allow users to solve problems in many areas of science, engineering. The cray1 is an extremely highspeed computer, intended to be used for large floatingpoint scientific computations. In response to these developments, isambard has been designed to provide the. Read online or download architecture ebooks for free. Ncert books pdf free download for class 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 april 11, 2020 by kishen 16 comments there are many books in the market but. The cray 1 s computing power is accessed at two different software. However, it is a wellbalanced machine that can gracefully be used on a. An analysis of the cray1 computer proceedings of the. Pdf study of supercomputers architecture, application. Cray 1 vector processor architecture diagram shows the vector register magic of the computer.
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This paper describes the cray, 1, discusses the evolution of its architecture, and gives an account of some of the problems that were overcome during its manufacture. A short summary of a classic computer that uses vectors of operations to remove. Vector processors have highlevel operations that work on linear arrays. A case study in pipelined architecture and vector processing.
Proprietary 3 the cray xc30 is a massively parallel processor mpp supercomputer design. Physial dimensions 1 mainframe composed of 12 wedgelike columns. Types of parallelism and how to exploit them instruction level parallelism different instructions within a stream can be executed in parallel pipelining, outoforder execution, speculative execution, vliw dataflow data parallelism different pieces of data can be operated on in parallel simd. The cray supercomputer has a peak system performance of 500 pf and 1 pf in a single cabinet.
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