iPSC-1
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1985
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Dimensions
- overall: 50 in x 16 in x 17 in
- Manufacturer
- Intel Corporation
- Credit Line
- Gift of MIT Statistics Center
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Location
- United States
- Keywords
- Rattner, Justin; multicomputer; hypercube; iPSC; Intel Corporation
- Object ID
- X1076.91
- Speed
- 2 MFLOPS
- Memory Size
- 16MW
- Memory Width
- 16-bit
Intel computer architect Justin Rattner created the iPSC (Intel Personal Super Computer) using 128 Intel 80286/7 processors interconnected as a hypercube. This novel, influential "multicomputer"—a computer made up of other computers, each with its own memory—used commercial off-the-shelf parts.
