Distributed storage control unit for the Hitachi S-3800 multivector supercomputer
Katsuyoshi Kitai, Tadaaki Isobe, Tadayuki Sakakibara, Shigeko Yazawa, Yoshiko Tamaki, Teruo Tanaka, Kouichi Ishii · 1994
This paper discusses the storage control unit of the Hitachi S-3800 supercomputer series, which is capable of achieving 8 GFLOPS in each of up to four shared-memory multiprocessors. This storage control unit is distributed to the V-SCs (vector-processor-side storage control units) and the M-SCs (main-storage-side storage control units), and achieves 128 gigabytes per second of total memory throughput. This distributed storage control unit supports scalability with increases in the number of processors and segmented parallel pipelines, simply by reconnecting the flat cables between the V-SCs and M-SCs.