Integrated graphics system

✍ Scribed by Computer Associates

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(87)90309-5

✦ Synopsis

CAD in industry Transputer-based workstation for molecular modelling

A workstation for molecular modelling has been launched by Chemical Design. Called the Mitie workstation, it consists of a transputer-based minisupercomputer integrated with a DEC Micro-VAX II processor, a Sigmex (or GE) high performance graphics display and Chem-X modelling software.

The T800-20 transputer was designed and manufactured by Inmos, and contains a 32-bit processor, a 64-bit floating point processor, 4 kbyte of memory, and four high speed communications links.

A parallel processing machine is created by linking chips together. Parallel architecture is suited to molecular modelling applications for three reasons. First, it allows chemists to run programs on many different molecules simultaneously, which can be important in pharmaceutical research where a whole range of potential drugs is