PS-2000

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ПС-2000
kilobytes (64 x 48 Kbits)
MIPS200 MIPS[3][2]
FLOPS40 MFlops[2]


The PS-2000 (ПС-2000, Russian: перенастраиваемая структура, reconfigurable system) was a

built in the 1980s.

PS-2000
3-axes view of PS-2000

History

In the middle of the 1970s, it appeared, in the

USSR, that the computing power available to process geophysics data, real-time space probes data, mineral prospecting, weather forecast, etc. was far to be sufficient, and that a new class of supercomputers, hundreds of times more powerful than the existing installed systems, was needed.[1]

The development of ПС-2000 began in 1978, as a joint project between the

Severodonetsk
, under the supervision of Il’ya Itenberg and Vladislav Rezanov of Impul's and Iveri Prangishvili of IPU. The computer entered production in 1981, and was manufactured in various configuration until 1988.
[3]

During the 1980s and the 1990s, the Roscosmos mission control computing complex was organized around an Elbrus 2 supercomputer, with a PS-2000 as a front processing supercomputer for telemetry data.

Architecture

The PS-2000 is a

SIMD
-type supercomputer.

It consists of 8 to 64

processing element (PE), cadenced at 3 MHz, that are connected to each other, under the control of a common command unit (OUU), and connected each to 12 or 48 KB of memory.[2]
Eight processing elements are grouped in a processing device (UO).

Each PE use 24 bits registers, in fixed or floating point format. An addition takes 0.96 μs and a multiplication takes 1.6 μs, allowing theoretic peak performances of 200 MIPS for a full configuration system.

The computer is formed from 3 cabinets types:[1]

  • Base module : one UO and one OUU
  • Extension module 1 : one UO (8 PE)
  • Extension module 2 : two UO (16 PE)

In the simplest configuration, the supercomputer consists of only one cabinet. In the full configuration, with 8 UO, the supercomputer consists of 5 cabinets, organised in a double-Y shape.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Многопроцессорная вычислительная система ПС-2000, Russian virtual computer museum
  2. ^ a b c d Advanced Architecture Computers 1989
  3. ^ a b Soviet high-speed computers : the new generation

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