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Foil 47 Example of Message Passing System: Intel Paragon

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Memory bus (64-bit, 50 MHz)
i860
L
1
$
NI
DMA
i860
L
1
$
Driver
Mem
ctrl
4-way
interleaved
DRAM
Intel
Paragon
node
8 bits,
175 MHz,
bidir
ectional
2D grid network
with pr
ocessing node
attached to every switch
Sandia'
s Intel Paragon XP/S-based Super
computer
2D Grid Network with Processing Node Attached to Every Switch
Powerful i860 node made this first "serious" MIMD distributed memory machine



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