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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
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Subject: U of Toronto computer science presentation, April 17
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Date: 11 Apr 89 16:31:54 GMT
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  TECHNICAL PRESENTATION - Monday, April 17,  10:30 a.m.  in  Room GB 119
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

                        Jerry Clay and Bill Altneu
                           Evans and Sutherland
                         Mountain View, California

                         "The ES-1 Supercomputer"

The recently announced ES-1 Supercomputer from Evans and Sutherland will be
described.   It utilizes the latest VLSI-CMOS technology and a moderately
parallel architecture to deliver high general-purpose supercomputer
performance.  The technology provides extremely fast scalar speeds and
performs numerous functions in parallel, thus allowing existing non-
vectorizable software to perform at supercomputer speeds.

Important features include:

     - Two to eight processor clusters of 16 computational units each

     - Memory sizes from 256MB to 2GB globally shared

     - Maximum execution rates from 320 MFLOPS to 1280 MFLOPS
-- 
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
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