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SIMSTAR – An Attached Multiprocessor for Dynamic System Engineering
A technical paper presented at the 1983 Summer Computer Simulation Conference describing the EAI SIMSTAR attached multiprocessor system for dynamic system simulation. SIMSTAR combines high-speed parallel digital arithmetic processors (delivering up to 200 million Normalized Operations-Per-Second), programmable logic, function generation hardware, and a FORTRAN-based simulation language (STARTRAN) to provide cost-effective large-scale continuous simulation. The system attaches to a host computer and integrates parallel math units, digital-to-analog signal conversion, and vector processing to simulate differential equations at frequencies ranging from 30 Hz (structural dynamics) to over 100 kHz (electronic circuits).
hybrid multiprocessorparallel simulationdigital arithmetic processorfunction generation