ccl@myrias.com (Carmen Los) (10/10/90)
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.