TOWARD THE ULTRA HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING SYSTEM

Speaker :

Tadashi Watanabe, NEC Corporation

Sponsor: NEC Corporation

US Price: $5.00 / Int'l Price: $5.00
Order #: 04-Watanabe

Tape Description

The lecture introduces the architectural and technological considerations for development of supercomputer systems. Performance is achieved by reducing the time to process any given quantity of data; and this reduction is a result of increasing the number of concurrently processed data items, and by shortening the machine cycle required to perform that processing. The NEC SX-3 R Supercomputer is used as an example. Chip design, packaging and interconnects, and cooling are presented, followed by a discussion of architectural issues such as scalar performance, instruction control, vector architectural features, parallel architectural features, and multiprocessor control.

Tape Length: 66 minutes

Date Recorded:

Usage Suggestions: Upper-division/Graduate-level/Industry & Professional Use

Speaker Biography

Tadashi Watanabe received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1966 and 1968, respectively. He joined NEC Corporation in 1968, and since then has been engaged in the architectural design of large mainframes and supercomputers. Mr. Watanabe is General Manager of Supercomputers Marketing Promotion Division at NEC.