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The Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) is a 128×128 parallel processing array computer. It was built by Goodyear Aerospace Corporation under contract to Goddard Space Flight Center and delivered in May, 1983. The MPP is a direct descendant of the ILLIAC IV and shares many of that system’s advantages and disadvantages. The ILLIAC was designed in the mid 1960’s for scientific calculations. The MPP was designed in the mid 1970’s for LANDSAT image processing. Each of its 16,384 processors is only one bit wide. It has no built in fixed- or floating-point arithmetic--only a full adder.
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Schneck, P.B. (1987). The Massively Parallel Processor. In: Supercomputer Architecture. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 31. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7957-1_9
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