The TI Advanced Scientific Computer

Abstract

The authors describe some of the design decisions that determined the architecture and implementation of the Advanced Scientific Computer (ASC). They explain why certain design decisions were made, with a retrospective evaluation. They discuss the architecture, central processor, peripheral processor, circuits and packaging, and cooling. Looking back over this twenty-year project, the authors evaluate their design decisions.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>