Application performance improvement on the iPSC/2 computer
S. Arshi, R. Asbury, Joe Brandenburg, Douglas Scott · 1988
The performance of concurrent computers depends fundamentally on the capabilities of the individual processing nodes and the characteristics of the interprocessor communication system. The Intel iPSC®/2 is significantly better in both categories than the original iPSC (iPSC/1). This paper will briefly compare the hardware of the two machines and then discuss the actual measured performance improvement of several kernels of application codes. The improvements vary from a factor of two and a half to more than a factor of 30.