TY - CONF AU - Esser, Rüdiger AU - Knecht, Renate TI - Intel Paragon XP/S - Architecture and Software Environment CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer M1 - FZJ-2015-02420 SN - 978-3-540-56948-0 (print) T2 - Informatik aktuell SP - 121 - 141 PY - 1993 AB - The paper describes the hardware and software components of the Intel Paragon XP/S system, a distributed memory scalable multicomputer. The Paragon processing nodes, which are based on the Intel i860 XP RISC processor, are connected by a two-dimensional mesh with high bandwidth. This new interconnection network and the new operating system are the main differences between the Paragon and its predecessor, the iPSC/860 with its hypercube topology. The paper first gives an overview of the Paragon system architecture, the node architecture, the interconnection network, I/O interfaces, and peripherals. The second part outlines the Paragon OSF/1 operating system and the program development environment including programming models, compilers, application libraries, and tools for parallelization, debugging, and performance analysis. T2 - Supercomputer '93 CY - 24 Jun 1993 - 26 Jun 1993, Mannheim (Germany) Y2 - 24 Jun 1993 - 26 Jun 1993 M2 - Mannheim, Germany LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7 DO - DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-78348-7_13 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/189229 ER -