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| Developer | IBM |
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| Type | Supercomputer platform |
| Release date | February 1993 |
| Discontinued | October 2000 |
| CPU | IBM POWER PowerPC |
| Successor | IBM Blue Gene |
| Website | rs6000.ibm.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-08-16) |
The Scalable POWERparallel (SP) is a discontinued series of supercomputers in the RS/6000 line by IBM. The first model, the SP1, was introduced in February 1993, and new models were introduced throughout the 1990s until the RS/6000 was succeeded by eServer pSeries in October 2000. The SP is a distributed memory system, consisting of multiple RS/6000-based nodes interconnected by an IBM-proprietary switch called the High Performance Switch (HPS). The nodes are clustered using software called PSSP, which is mainly written in Perl.
Computer scientist Marc Snir was awarded the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to supercomputing, which included his work on the SP.[1]
- ^ "Marc Snir: 2013 Seymour Cray Award Recipient". IEEE Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2014-03-26.
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