INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR NUMERIC AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATIONS

THE PROPOSED TASKS ARE TO INVESTIGATE THE COMPUTER FEATURES NECESSARY TO PROVIDE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMBINED NUMERIC AND SYMBOLIC PROCESSING. THIS EFFORT USES THE CHOPP SUPERCOMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AS THE TARGET MACHINE. CHOPP IS A RECENT BREAKTHROUGH IN THE ORGANIZATION OF GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS FOR NUMERICAL PERFORMANCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. A SINGLE NODE OF THE CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY CHOPP 1 IS A UNIPROCESSOR THAT HAS FOUR TIMES THE THROUGHPUT OF THE CRAY X-MP FOR SEQUENTIAL LIVERMORE LOOPS BENCHMARKS. THIS DEMONSTRATES THAT THE ARCHITECTURE IS AN INNOVATIVE BREAKTHROUGH. CHOPP COMPUTER CORPORATION DEVELOPS AND SELLS FOUR TO SIXTEEN PROCESSOR, AIR-COOLED SUPERCOMPUTERS BASED UPON THE INNOVATIVE CHOPP ARCHITECTURE. EVALUATION OF CHOPP HARDWARE AND LANGUAGE FOR SYMBOLIC PROCESSING DETERMINES THE EXPECTED PERFORMANCE, VALUE AND EFFORT NECESSARY TO PRODUCE A COMBINED SYMBOLIC AND NUMERIC CHOPP COMPUTER.