S-1 supercomputer

The S-1 was a supercomputer architecture jointly developed by Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It was MIMD multi-processor using shared memory, all connected through a crossbar switch The architecture was inspired by the PDP-10; among other things the word size was 36 bits.

Five generations was planned, but only two were built the Mark I, and the Mark IIA. Both were wire-wrapped; the Mark IIA was implemented in ECL.

Common Lisp got many number crunching features from S-1 Lisp.

External links

• S-1 Architecture Manual (STAN-CS-79-715)
• The S-1 Project - 1979 Annual Report
• The Amber Operating System
• S-1 project
• The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory S-1 project and Stanford University
• S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)