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- CERPASS - Center for Experimental Research in
- Parallel Algorithms, Software and Systems
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- CERPASS
- USC - Information Sciences Institute
- 4676 Admiralty Way
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: cerpass@isi.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (213) 822-1511
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Center for Experimental Research in Parallel Algorithms,
- Software and Systems (CERPASS) provides an experimental
- facility for researchers on the Internet.
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- The Center's parallel computing resource includes a Connec-
- tion Machine CM-2 and a Symult Series 2010.
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- The Connection Machine Model CM-2 is a massively parallel
- SIMD machine. Its hardware consists of 16,384 data proces-
- sors interconnected via a hypercube network. Each processor
- has a bit-serial ALU and a 64K-bit local memory. This CM-2
- has two front-end subsystems - one VAX 6210 and one Symbol-
- ics 3600, a 5-Gigabyte mass storage system and a graphic
- color display device. Half of the machine (i.e., 8,192 pro-
- cessors) is also equipped with floating-point accelerator.
- Programming languages available on this machine include
- *Lisp, C* and Paris interfaces to Commonlisp and C.
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- The Symult S2010 is a message-passing, distributed memory
- MIMD machine. Its hardware consists of 32 computational
- nodes. Each node has a 32-bit Motorola 68020 microprocessor
- as its CPU, augmented by the Motorola 68881 floating-point
- coprocessors. Each node has 8MB local memory, and is con-
- nected with other nodes via a high-speed message-routing
- network (GigaLink). This machine uses a Sun-3 front-end,
- and can be programmed in C and the parallel extension
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- 3 October 1989 NNSC Section 1.14, Page 1
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- Both the CM-2 and the Symult S2010 can be accessed from
- Internet via their VAX and SUN front-ends, respectively.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
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- Any organization working under a government contract or
- grant may apply for use of the CERPASS facility for parallel
- processing research. To establish an account, please con-
- tact the address above.
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