Cydra-5 is a division supercomputer , the first minisupercomputer developed by Cydrome . It was completed in 1987 . At that time, Cydra-5 was estimated [1] in the amount of $ 0.5-1.0 million, but achieved a performance equal to 1/3 to 1/5 of the performance of supercomputers costing from $ 10-20 million.
Cydra-5 is a heterogeneous processor system. There are two types of processors that functionally specialize in different aspects of the workload. A numerical processor only works on numerical calculations, while a general-purpose processor works on a number of instructions to free the numerical processor from this job.
Project Philosophy
The approach that separates the main processor and the coprocessor is unsuitable due to performance limitations.
Notes
- ↑ Rutgers - The Cydra-5 departmental supercomputer - Cydra Inc. (inaccessible link)