The Supercomputer Toolkit: Towards a General Theory of Special Computing

超级计算机工具包：迈向特殊计算的一般理论

• 批准号: 9001651
• 负责人: Gerald Sussman
• 金额: $ 164.14万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-06-15 至 1995-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9001651&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supercomputer; Toolkit; Towards; General; Theory

This is a proposal to build cost-effective specialized computers for scientific computation. A set of hardware and software will be developed to allow rapid construction of very specialized computers: computers that are capable of running exactly one program. The computers are built from many data path parts, interconnected to reflect the control flow of the program to be executed. Several of these computers are under construction for different problems, including the n-body problem of predicting planetary motions, some electronic simulation problems, and large-scale particle simulations. Comparison with other computational approaches to this problem will allow an accurate evaluation of this technique.

这是一个为科学计算建造具有成本效益的专用计算机的建议。一套硬件和软件将被开发出来，以允许快速建造非常专业的计算机：能够只运行一个程序的计算机。计算机由许多数据路径部件组成，相互连接以反映要执行的程序的控制流程。其中几台计算机正在建造中，用于解决不同的问题，包括预测行星运动的n体问题、一些电子模拟问题和大规模粒子模拟。将此问题与其他计算方法进行比较，可以对该技术进行准确的评估。