The Supercomputer Toolkit and Its Applications
Author(s) • • • • •
Abelson, Harold
Berlin, Andrew A.
Katzenelson, Jacob
McAllister, William H.
Rozas, Guillermo J.
Sussman, Gerald Jay
Date Issued
July 1, 1990
Series/Report no.
AIM-1249
Abstract
The Supercomputer Toolkit is a proposed family of standard hardware and software components from which special-purpose machines can be easily configured. Using the Toolkit, a scientist or an engineer, starting with a suitable computational problem, will be able to readily configure a special purpose multiprocessor that attains supercomputer-class performance on that problem, at a fraction of the cost of a general purpose supercomputer. The Toolkit is currently being built as a joint project between Hewlett-Packard and MIT. The software and the applications are in various stages of development and research.
Subjects
special-purpose hardware
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