• 1992

Hardware Description

The Fujitsu AP1000, announced in October 1992, was Fujitsu’s first scalar-parallel supercomputer that was formed by connecting general-purpose workstations together with a high-speed network. The AP1000 was a distributed-memory, highly parallel computer built from between 16 and 1,024 processing elements called cells. The network connecting the cells was called T-Net, which had a 2D torus topology.