The Massively Parallel Computer System of the DFG Priority Research Programme “Flow Simulation on Supercomputers” at RWTH Aachen

The members of the Priority Research Programme ‘Flow Simulation on Supercomputers’ applied for a massively parallel system in June 1990. They proposed and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) decided to purchase a transputer-based parallel system developed and produced by Parsystec GmbH (Aachen). The computing center of Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen) operates a system with 256 computing nodes since March 1991. The members of the research programme from outside Aachen can access the system via the German Science Network (Wissenschaftsnetz WIN).