IBM RISC System/6000* Scalable POWERparallel Systems * SP2

IBM SP2In April, 1995, OSC engineers began installing a powerful new computer at the OSC/KRC – an IBM RISC System/6000* Scalable POWERparallel Systems * SP2. The SP2 could run several numeric-intensive and data-intensive projects across different processors – which allowed different users across the state to use the SP2 at the same time – or handle a single project quickly by distributing the calculations equally across its available processors.

"We selected the SP2 largely because of its ability to use a high-speed switch to interconnect the processors, and the assignment of disk units to individual nodes in order to optimize parallel I/O," said Al Stutz, OSC's associate director.

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