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IBM ViVA, the Glossary

ViVA (Virtual Vector Architecture) is a technology from IBM for coupling together multiple scalar floating point units to act as a single vector processor.^[1]

13 relations: ASC Purple, Cray, Earth Simulator, Floating-point unit, FLOPS, IBM, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, NEC, POWER5, POWER6, Scalar processor, Supercomputer, Vector processor.
IBM computer hardware

ASC Purple

ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.

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Cray

Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Earth Simulator

The is a series of supercomputers deployed at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Yokohama Institute of Earth Sciences.

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Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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FLOPS

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), is a high-performance computing (supercomputer) National User Facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy Office of Science.

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NEC

is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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POWER5

The POWER5 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by IBM.

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POWER6

The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.05.

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Scalar processor

Scalar processors are a class of computer processors that process only one data item at a time.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Vector processor

In computing, a vector processor or array processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently and effectively on large one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ViVA

Also known as Virtual Vector Architecture.