Vector supercomputer “Electronica SS BIS”

The article outlines the basic design principles of the Electronica SS BIS software and computing complex, aimed at addressing the most complex scientific problems. The developers have researched heterogeneous computing supersystems due to the experience they had accumulated from creating previous systems. Research has shown that integrating closely related subsystems with different architectures results in more effective computing systems. With this approach, supercomputers not only became multiprocessors, but they also combined a number of subsystems or independent functional systems, such as a multi-level memory system, a system of functionally specialized machines, a channel system, and a distributed operating system. Later, this work became the foundation for a new direction in computing technology—computing supersystems. In recent years this direction has been recognized as highly relevant and promising.