Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Goodyear Aerospace Corporation
- Summary
- This is part of an experimental computer, developed in the mid-1980s by the Goodyear Aerospace Corporation for the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The comptuer derives it name from its ability to operate on large arrays of data in parallel, i.e. on many numbers at once. By contrast, computers of conventional design operate on one or at most a few pieces of data per cycle. One intended application for such a design was the analysis of the large amounts of data received by remote sensing satelliltes.
- The Massively Parallel Processor represented one of several approaches to the problem of processing data in parallel. Nearly all modern supercomputers use parallel processing, although not all follow this machine's architecture.
- Transferred from NASA to the Museum in 1996.
- Alternate Name
- Massively Parallel Processor Unit
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Inventory Number
- A19960047000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Computers, General Purpose
- Materials
- Case: sheet steel cabinet, blue
- Circuit boards: epoxy resin printed circuit boards
- Circuits: silicon integrated circuits
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 111.8 x 71.1 x 200.7cm (44 x 28 x 79 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19960047000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv942e66368-43fa-4183-94f8-a42ca21ebe6a
