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The members of the Priority Research Programme ‘Flow Simulation on Supercomputers’ applied for a massively parallel system in June 1990. They proposed and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) decided to purchase a transputer-based parallel system developed and produced by Parsystec GmbH (Aachen). The computing center of Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen) operates a system with 256 computing nodes since March 1991. The members of the research programme from outside Aachen can access the system via the German Science Network (Wissenschaftsnetz WIN).
Besides a short overview about characteristics of the parallel system and its network integration at the computing center of RWTH Aachen, some experiences in operation and a general improvement in operation and usage of this system will be reported in more detail.
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Kremer, K. (1995). The Massively Parallel Computer System of the DFG Priority Research Programme “Flow Simulation on Supercomputers” at RWTH Aachen. In: Wagner, S. (eds) Computational Fluid Dynamics on Parallel Systems. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 50. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89454-0_10
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