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Quadrics (company)

Quadrics was a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. ^[1]

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Advanced Simulation and Computing Program

The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) is a super-computing program run by the National Nuclear Security Administration, in order to simulate, test, and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile.

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Alpha 21264

The Alpha 21264 is a RISC microprocessor developed by Digital Equipment Corporation launched on 19 October 1998.

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AlphaServer

AlphaServer is a series of server computers, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

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APE100

APE100 was a family of SIMD supercomputers developed by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") in Italy between 1989 and 1994. Quadrics (company) and APE100 are supercomputers.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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Application-specific integrated circuit

An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficiency video codec.

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Beowulf cluster

A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Computer cluster

A computer cluster is a set of computers that work together so that they can be viewed as a single system. Quadrics (company) and computer cluster are supercomputers.

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DEC Alpha

Alpha (original name Alpha AXP) is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. Quadrics (company) and Digital Equipment Corporation are Defunct computer hardware companies.

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Fabless manufacturing

Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry.

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Fat tree

The fat tree network is a universal network for provably efficient communication.

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FLOPS

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.

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French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies.

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Gigabit Ethernet

In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second.

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Gnodal

Gnodal was a computer networking company headquartered in Bristol, UK. Quadrics (company) and Gnodal are Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom, Defunct computer hardware companies and networking hardware companies.

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Groupe Bull

Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Quadrics (company) and Hewlett-Packard are Defunct computer hardware companies and networking hardware companies.

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High-performance computing

High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems.

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HIPPI

HIPPI, short for High Performance Parallel Interface, is a computer bus for the attachment of high speed storage devices to supercomputers, in a point-to-point link.

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InfiniBand

InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. Quadrics (company) and InfiniBand are computer networks.

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Interconnection

In telecommunications, interconnection is the physical linking of a carrier's network with equipment or facilities not belonging to that network.

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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN; "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle, theoretical and astroparticle physics in Italy.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States.

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Leonardo (company)

Leonardo S.p.A., formerly Leonardo-Finmeccanica and originally Finmeccanica, is an Italian multinational company specialising in aerospace, defence and security.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.

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Massively parallel

Massively parallel is the term for using a large number of computer processors (or separate computers) to simultaneously perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel.

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Meiko Scientific

Meiko Scientific Ltd. was a British supercomputer company based in Bristol, founded by members of the design team working on the Inmos transputer microprocessor. Quadrics (company) and Meiko Scientific are Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom and supercomputers.

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Message Passing Interface

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standardized and portable message-passing standard designed to function on parallel computing architectures.

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Myrinet

Myrinet, ANSI/VITA 26-1998, is a high-speed local area networking system designed by the company Myricom to be used as an interconnect between multiple machines to form computer clusters. Quadrics (company) and Myrinet are computer networks.

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NUMAlink

NUMAlink is a system interconnect developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for use in its distributed shared memory ccNUMA computer systems.

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Opteron

Opteron is AMD's x86 former server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64).

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Parallel computing

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.

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Peripheral Component Interconnect

Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Quadrics (company)

Quadrics was a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. Quadrics (company) and Quadrics (company) are computer networks, Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom, Defunct computer hardware companies, networking companies, networking hardware companies and supercomputers.

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Scalable Coherent Interface

The Scalable Coherent Interface or Scalable Coherent Interconnect (SCI), is a high-speed interconnect standard for shared memory multiprocessing and message passing. Quadrics (company) and Scalable Coherent Interface are computer networks.

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SHARCNET

SHARCNET is a consortium of universities in Ontario, Canada, that aggregate funding to purchase supercomputer systems, which are shared among the members to perform research, rather than individually purchasing smaller systems at each university.

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SHMEM

SHMEM (from Cray Research's “shared memory” library) is a family of parallel programming libraries, providing one-sided, RDMA, parallel-processing interfaces for low-latency distributed-memory supercomputers.

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Single instruction, multiple data

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy.

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STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics NV (commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. Quadrics (company) and supercomputer are supercomputers.

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Symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.

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Telespazio VEGA UK

Telespazio UK Ltd. is a British space company based in Luton, Bedfordshire.

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Tera-10

TERA-10 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, (Atomic Energy Commission). Quadrics (company) and Tera-10 are supercomputers.

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Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo (33%).

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Ultra Port Architecture

The Ultra Port Architecture (UPA) bus was developed by Sun Microsystems as a high-speed graphics card to CPU interconnect, beginning with the Ultra 1 workstation in 1995.

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UltraSPARC

The UltraSPARC is a microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems and fabricated by Texas Instruments, introduced in mid-1995.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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X86-64

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999.

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10 Gigabit Ethernet

10 Gigabit Ethernet (abbreviated 10GE, 10GbE, or 10 GigE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrics_(company)

Also known as QSW, QsNet, QsNet II, Quadrics Supercomputers World.

, Ultra Port Architecture, UltraSPARC, United Kingdom, X86-64, 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

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