Intel I PSC

Intel I PSC

The Intel iPSC is a parallel computer. It was superseded by the Intel iPSC/2. iPSC also more generally refers to the particular line of Intel parallel computers, which includes the iPSC/2 and the iPSC/860. Acronym "iPSC" means "Intel Personal SuperComputer".

The iPSC/1 was introduced by Intel in 1985, and consisted of 32 to 128 nodes arranged in an ethernet-connected hypercube. Each node had a 80286 CPU with 80287 math coprocessor, 512K of RAM, and eight ethernet ports (seven for the hypercube, and one to talk to the cube manager). The system was hosted by a PC running Xenix, the "cube manager".

The basic models were the iPSC/d5 (five-dimension hypercube, 32 nodes), iPSC/d6 (6d, 64 nodes), and iPSC/d7 (7d, 128 nodes). Extra memory (iPSC-MX) and vector processor (iPSC-VX) models were also available, in the three sizes.

iPSC/1 was the first commercial parallel computer.

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