The Supercomputer Toolkit: Towards a General Theory of Special Computing

这是一个建立具有成本效益的专用计算机的建议， 科学计算 一套硬件和软件将 为了快速构建非常专业的计算机而开发的： 能够运行一个程序的计算机。 的 计算机是由许多数据路径部件组成的，这些部件相互连接， 要执行的程序的控制流程。 几个这样 计算机正在建设中的不同问题，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。 比较 与其他计算方法，这个问题将允许一个 对这项技术的准确评价。

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.