TY  - GEN
AU  - Raul Mendez
TI  - High performance computing research and practice in japan
T2  - series 
SN  - 0-471-92867-4
PY  - 1992///
CY  - England 
PB  - John Wiley and sons
KW  - Ingeniería en tecnologias de la información y comunicaciones
N1  - EDITORIAL 
John Wiley and sons
ISBN 
0-471-92867-4; Contents

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Preface

Contributors

PART I: SUPERCOMPUTING: PAST AND PRESENT

1 JAPANESE SUPERCOMPUTERS: AN OVERVIEW R. Mendez

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The first Japanese supercomputers

1.3 Enhanced systems

1.4 Present Japanese and US supercomputers

1.5 The software dimension

2 FUJITSU VP2000 SERIES

M. Takahashi, Y. Oinaga and K. Uchida

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Fujitsu supercomputers

2.3 Features of the VP2000 series

2.4 VP2000 series hardware

2.5 Advanced technology

2.6 VP2000 series software

27 Conclusion

3 THE NEC SX-3 SUPERCOMPUTER SERIES

T. Watanabe and A. Iwaya

3.1 The SX-3 features

3.2 SX-3 development philosophy

3.3 Hardware technologies for the SX-3 supercomputer

3.4 System architecture of the SX-3 supercomputer

3.5 Processor architecture of the SX-3 supercomputer

3.6 Software for the SX-3 supercomputer

3.7 Conclusion

Bibliography
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N2  - Preface

In the eight years since the introduction of the first Japanese supercomputers in 1983, supercomputing in Japan has made quite impressive progress on a number of different fronts. Although the high performance general purpose Imachines from Fujitsu, Hitachi and NEC are better known, a wide variety of parallel machines have also been investigated, from distributed memory multiprocessors for specific physical calculations to the first large scale dataflow computers. We have attempted to bring together, for the first time, a collection of papers representative of the state of supercomputing in Japan at the beginning of the 1990s.

Our approach was to survey the present status of japanese supercom puting, dividing the papers in three sections: Architectures and Systems, Languages and Compilers; and Applications. In the first section, we intro-duce the latest supercomputers from each of the major manufacturers. Even though much of the high performance of the Japanese supercomputers can be attributed to advances in hardware technology, it is important to note that the underlying software technology, described in Languages and Compilers, is a critical factor in overall performance. Finally, we explore some of the areas where supercomputers are used as tools for advancing the state-of-the-art in science and engineering in Japan
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