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HONEYWELL IBOO-ll A Large -Scale Scientific Processor George B. Bailey C. Norman Cannin~; William S. GrinKe r Rolf Kates William L. Mellentin Norman Nisenoff TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Pages Introduction v thru vii I Summary of Advantages I-I thru 1- 4 II Hardware Characteristics 11-1 thru 11-43 III Software Characteristics 111-1 thru 111- 21 IV Special Equipment IV-l thru IV -17 V Typical Equipment Configurations V-I thru V- 2 VI Competitive Comparisons VI-l thru VI- 2 VII Honeywell Scientific Users VII-l thru VII- 3 VIII Honeywell Capabilitie s VIII-l thru VIII-22 IX Miscellaneous iii INTRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC CONSIDERATIONS A great variety of factors determine the applicability and'utility of a Data processing System with respect to the requirements of the scientific community. Any computer, no matter how fast or large, is unfinished unless its hardware is properly complemented by a full repertoire of software that is capable of economically assimilating and solving the wide range of problems encountered in a Scientific Computing Facility. The Honeywell H-lSOO-II has made a significant break- through in total SYSTEM'S CONCEPT by combining extremely fast Central Processor Operations, flexible peripheral Devices, completely proven and integrated SOFTWARE, and parallel Processing at a modest Systems cost. The factors that have prevented users from achieving total utility from competitive systems have been solved by the H-1800-II as follows: RAW SPEED -120,000 three address operations per second execution, the equivalent of 300,000 single address operations per second. -10 microsecond floating binary multiplication for a full 48 bit word. TURN-AROUND TIME The availability of all peripheral units to the central processor through the use of the Input Output Control Center (IOCC) and hardware parallel Processing allow AUTOMATH 1800 (FORTRAN IV) to operate in a mixture of load and go and execute later modes. This combination of hardware and software give the user IMMEDIATE turn-around. v FLEXIBILITY The hardware features of Multiprogram Control and Buffer Traffic Control combined with the ADMIRAL Master Monitor allows complete independ~nce of up to eight programs operating in parallel. Not