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The VPP500 is a highly parallel, distributed memory supercomputer system. With the maximum configuration of 222 processing elements, its peak performance is 355 gigaflops and its aggregate main storage capacity is 55 gigabytes. Each processing element is a vector supercomputer with a peak vector performance of 1.6 GFLOPS. The non-blocking crossbar network interconnects the processing elements for simultaneous data communication, and provides an aggregate data transfer rate of 800 MB/s per processing element. The operating system which is a variant of the UNIX System V Release 4, and has been extended for distributed-memory parallel environment, supports the language processing system for parallel processing. VPP-FORTRAN, Fujitsu’s parallel extension to FORTRAN77, is provided for the simple and straight-forward parallel programming.
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Miura, K. (1993). VPP500 Supercomputing System. In: Meuer, HW. (eds) Supercomputer ’93. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78348-7_6
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