Mission of Supercomputer

A Streaming Supercomputer

We are in an era where computational building blocks are plentiful and inexpensive. A single chip today can hold over 100 1GHz °oating-point units for a total performance of 100 GFLOPS/chip. Many graphics chips achieve 80GFLOPS and over 1TOP rendering performance, and cost less than $100. Embedded processors are less powerful, but incredibly cheap. It is fair to say that a raw GFLOPS costs less...

Adaptive design of supercomputer experiments

Computer experiments are often performed to allow modeling of a response surface of a physical experiment that can be too costly or difficult to run except using a simulator. Running the experiment over a dense grid can be prohibitively expensive, yet running over a sparse design chosen in advance can result in obtaining insufficient information in parts of the space, particularly when the surf...

A Compiler-driven Supercomputer

The overall prrformance of supercomputers is slow compared to the speed of their underlying logic technology. This discrepancy is due to several bottlenecks: memories are slower than the CPU, conditional jumps limit the usefulness of pipelining and pre-fetching mechanisms, and functional-unit parallelism is limited by the speed of hardware scheduling. This paper describes a supercomputer archit...

IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer

Anupam Supercomputer Systems

The development of ANUPAM supercomputer systems based on parallel processing techniques has been the most outstanding achievement of Computer Division, BARC. ANUPAM Pentium III/16, is the latest and fastest supercomputer developed in April 2000, using 16 Pentium III @ 550 MHz. personal computers as compute nodes. This supercomputer is having a sustained speed of 3.5 Giga Flops, which is 2-3 tim...