Programming Environment for a High Performance Parallel Supercomputer with Intelligent Communication

. At the Electronics Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Techology (ETH) in Zurich, the high performance Parallel Supercomputer MUSIC (MUlti processor System with Intelligent Communication) has beed developed. As applications in neural network simulation and molecular dynamics show, the Electronics Lab Supercomputer is absolutely on a par with those of conventional supercomputers, but electric power requirements are reduced by a factor of 1000, wight is reduced by a factor of 400 and price is reduced by a factor of 100. Software development is a key using such a parallel system. This report focus on the programming environment of the MUSIC system and on it's applications. 1. INTRODUCTION Scientific computing often demands high computing power. Because many tasks in these applications have a great potential for parallel processing, developers have proffered a number of parallel computer architectures [1, 3, 12, 4]. Using an array of high performance,inexpensive processors (mass produ..