PS-2000
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| ПС-2000 | |
|---|---|
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| Design | |
| Manufacturer | Institute of Control Problems and the Impul's Scientific Production Association |
| Designer | Il’ya Itenberg, Vladislav Rezanov of Impul's and Iveri Prangishvili |
| Release date | 1981 |
| Units sold | 242[1] |
| Price | 800,000 Rbls[2] |
| Casing | |
| Dimensions | 100 cm x 45 cm x 180 cm per cabinet. |
| System | |
| CPU | 8 to 64 24-bit processing element @ 3 MHz[1] |
| Memory | Up to 3072 kilobytes (64 x 48 Kbits) |
| MIPS | 200 MIPS[3][2] |
| FLOPS | 40 MFlops[2] |
The PS-2000 (ПС-2000, Russian: перенастраиваемая структура, reconfigurable system) was a Soviet supercomputer built in the 1980s.
In the middle of the 1970s, it appeared, in the USSR, that the computing power available to process geophysics data, real-time space probes data, mineral prospecting, weather forecast, etc. was far to be sufficient, and that a new class of supercomputers, hundreds of times more powerful than the existing installed systems, was needed.[1]
The development of ПС-2000 began in 1978, as a joint project between the Institute of Control Problems (IPU) in Moscow and the Impul's Scientific Production Association in Severodonetsk, under the supervision of Il’ya Itenberg and Vladislav Rezanov of Impul's and Iveri Prangishvili of IPU. The computer entered production in 1981, and was manufactured in various configurations until 1988.[3]
During the 1980s and the 1990s, the Roscosmos mission control computing complex was organized around an Elbrus 2 supercomputer, with a PS-2000 as a front-processing supercomputer for telemetry data.