Myrias

Status:

No longer manfacturing parallel hardware but active in the development of parallel software tools for high performance computing systems.

Overview of Organization:

Myrias was founded in 1982 to build massively-parallel supercomputers. The goal was to deliver the price-performance promised by parallel computing -- but in a package that would be easy for a scientist to use.

At the core of the Myrias hardware was a simple, powerful software package called PAMS (the Parallel Application Management System). PAMS was designed to be responsive and robust and to deliver high degrees of scalability with minimal effort. It has achieved near-linear speedups with non-trivial codes on over 1000 processors.

Between 1987 and 1989, Myrias delivered three generations of parallel hardware. But as hardware competition grew fierce and customers demanded standard general-purpose systems, Myrias concentrated its efforts on its traditional strength -- software.

Platforms manufactured:

Shown below is a 1044-processor Myrias SPS-2, commissioned in December 1989.

Contact Address:

Myrias Software Corp. 
Suite 209, 9644 - 54 Avenue 
Edmonton, Alberta 
Canada 
T6E 5V1

The company's homepage.

hawick@npac.syr.edu

saleh@npac.syr.edu