The transputer is a series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s, intended for parallel computing. To support this, each transputer had its own integrated memory and serial communication links to exchange data with other transputers. They were designed and produced by Inmos, a semiconductor company based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
T414 transputer chip
IMSB008 base platform with IMSB419 and IMSB404 modules mounted
Empty B008 motherboard
Selection of TRAMs
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has gained broader interest due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. As power consumption by computers has become a concern in recent years, parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors.
Large supercomputers such as IBM's Blue Gene/P are designed to heavily exploit parallelism.
Taiwania 3 of Taiwan, a parallel supercomputing device that joined COVID-19 research
A Beowulf cluster
A cabinet from IBM's Blue Gene/L massively parallel supercomputer