Giant memory

1992/12/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Hardwarea

The computer pathway that scientists should use in fluid mechanics, modelling molecular structures, weather forecasting and climatology does not always give good results, since the size of the internal memory of computers is usually not enough to treat the existing dataset, so instead of treating the data together they are treated in several stages. The latest supercomputer model Y-MP M98 is not faster than the rest, but can contain 32 gigabytes of data (4,000 million words per 64 bit) in its internal memory.

This allows modeling the entire body of a car in one turn and running programs that use a large dataset three or six times faster.