ccl@myrias.com (Carmen Los) (09/14/90)
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CANADIAN NETWORK FOR SPACE RESEARCH ACQUIRES FIRST
68040-based MYRIAS COMPUTER
Thursday, September 13, 1990 ... Myrias Corporation today delivered the first
Myrias SPS-3, its latest high-performance parallel system, to the Canadian
Network for Space Research (CNSR). Acquired with CNSR funds, this SPS-3
contains 32 Motorola 68040 microprocessors. This is the first delivery of a
commercial product that incorporates 68040-microprocessor technology.
Among several Networks of Centers of Excellence funded by the
Federal Government, the Canadian Network for Space Research consists
of seven private companies, five university-based research groups, and
two government laboratories. The University of Alberta Space Physics Group,
part of the CNSR, will be operating the system for the center.
The Myrias SPS-3 computer will assist the researchers in their ongoing
study of the acceleration of ionized particles in deep space, responsible for
such natural phenomena as the northern lights. A practical consequence of
these studies will be a better understanding of the damaging effects these
solar-terrestrial interactions have on man-made systems such as operational
satellites and large-scale power grids at high latitudes.
The SPS-3 parallel computer is well-suited to modelling the space plasma
environment. This was demonstrated last December when Myrias ran the largest
known particle-in-cell simulation, consisting of 22 million particles on a
4096x4096 grid, on a 1024-processor SPS-2, an earlier version of the Myrias
parallel computer.
Myrias and University researchers look forward to a close working relationship,
together pushing the boundaries of parallel processing and penetrating
the unknowns of the space environment.
Myrias develops and manufactures high-performance parallel computing systems.
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