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Foil 69 Example of Message Passing System: IBM SP-2

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
More Details on IBM SP2
Made out of essentially complete RS6000 workstations
Network interface integrated in I/O bus
Most successful MIMD Distributed Memory Machine
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Power 2
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Memory
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4-way
interleaved
DRAM
General inter
connection
network formed fr
om
8-port switches
NIC

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