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Foil 67 Characteristics of INTEL i860 Compute Node

From New CPS615 Foils-- B 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 RISC engine + 2FPUs + graphics accelerator
2 40 MHz clock
3 Parallel integer and floating-point processing units
4 Parallel multiplier and adder units within floating-point unit
5 Pipelined floating-point processing units (3-stage pipe)
6 80 MFlops (SP) Peak, 60 MFlops (DP) Peak, 33 MIP's (Integer)
7 all transcendental functions done in software
8 16 MBytes Main Memory (expandable to 64 MBytes)
9 160 MBytes/sec peak DRAM access rate
10 Very hard to build good compilers for i860!
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