Hardware system of the Earth Simulator

Parallel Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1287-1313

  Habata, Shinichi ^a   Umezawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Yokokawa, Mitsuo ^b   Kitawaki, Shigemune ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crossbar network; Distributed memory; HPC (high performance computing); Parallel processing; Shared memory; Supercomputer; Vector processor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BANDWIDTH; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COOLING; CROSSBAR EQUIPMENT; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; VECTORS;

CROSSBAR NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; EARTH SIMULATORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); SHARED MEMORY; VECTOR PROCESSORS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 9944245958     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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