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Abstract

NAL Numerical Wind Tunnel (NWT) is a distributed memory parallel computer developed through joint research and development of NAL and Fujitsu. It is based on the analysis of CFD codes developed in NAL. The target performance is more than 100 times faster than VP400. In this paper, the parallel computation model employed in the development of the NWT is described. The specification and feature of the NWT and the NWT Fortran are discussed. Finally, performance evaluations and some applications are presented. We find that the target performance is attained. >