ian@utcs.UUCP (06/03/85)
UTCS presents a seminar on AMDAHL SUPERCOMPUTING by Mr. Phil Howell, Manager, Marketing, Special Purpose Systems, Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, California. When: Thursday, June 6, 1985, 2:00 PM Where: Room 134, McLennan Laboratories, 60 St. George Street Abstract: Amdahl is the North American marketer of the Fujitsu VP100 and VP200 supercomputers. Mr. Howell will discuss the technical specifications of these systems, known here as the Amdahl 1100 and 1200 Vector Processors. He will describe their architecture, system software and software development tools. He will also present some recent benchmark results. According to Amdahl ``the Amdahl 1100 and 1200 Vector Processors bring high-performance supercomputing to the System/370 software user who has intensive FORTRAN computing needs. The Amdahl vector processor system is an extension of System/370 architecture. It consists of either the 1100 or 1200 Vector Processor supported by extensive system and application development software. The Amdahl 1200 Vector Processor provides processing speeds of up to 533 million floating point operations per second (megaflops or MFLOPS), and the Amdahl 1100 Vector Processor provides processing speeds up to 267 MFLOPS.''