Description
The Intel iPSC is a parallel computer. It was superseded by the Intel iPSC/2. iPSC also more generally refers to the particular line of Intel parallel computers, which includes the iPSC/2 and the iPSC/860. Acronym "iPSC" means "Intel Personal SuperComputer".
The iPSC/1 was introduced by Intel in 1985, and consisted of 32 to 128 nodes arranged in an ethernet-connected hypercube. Each node had a 80286 CPU with 80287 math coprocessor, 512K of RAM, and eight ethernet ports (seven for the hypercube, and one to talk to the cube manager). The system was hosted by a PC running Xenix, the "cube manager".
