ABSTRACT
Minisupercomputers combine successfully modern chip technology and the production techniques of the minicomputer industry with the architecture of the most modern supercomputers, as is explained in several papers in references. In the particular position as “supercomputer” they can assume the role of the mainframe in middle- and smaller-sized companies. An increasing number of issues related to computer science are appearing in the development of advanced computational capabilities. With the engineering and scientific model benchmark, the performance and software environments of many existing super- and minisupercomputers have been tested within the last years. Ardent’s Titan is a graphics supercomputer which provides scientific computations and high-performance graphics. Stellar’s GS1000 is a member of the same family of graphics supercomputers as the Titan. Comparing their computational and their graphics performance, they are quite similar.
