1981-1984

1981-1984

1982. The Order of the Ministry of Instrument Engineering, appointed RPA “Impulse” the Leading Organization in the USSR for the Development, Commercialization, And Implementation of Control Computer Machinery for Nuclear Power Engineering.

Work was launched on the development of hardware and software for the upper and lower levels of the ICS of NPP power units, as well as for the industrial network.

Start of serial production of high-performance PS-2000 and PS-3000 multiprocessor computers. They were used in geophysics, hydroacoustic data processing systems, meteorology, telemetry, and scientific experiments.

Computer PS-2000

The PS-2000 architecture is of SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) type.

The PS-2000 performance is 200 million operations per second. It had up to 64 processor elements, the interaction structure of which during calculations was determined by task algorithms.

Note: An article was published in the journal “Control Instruments and Systems” in 1992, No. 10, “Evaluation of the performance of the PS2100 computer”.
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The next model, PS-2100 (developed in 1988), achieved a performance of 1.5 billion operations per second. The processor elements were implemented on basic matrix crystals (BMC) manufactured using CMOS technology..

PS-2100

Computer PS-3000

The PS-3000 computer is a computing system with MIMD (Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream) architecture.

The PS-3000 consists of: 4 scalar processors (SP); 2 vector processors, each consisting of eight identical, autonomously and asynchronously functioning processor elements; 4 general-purpose RAM modules; up to 16 peripheral processors.

Up to eight commands could be simultaneously processed at various stages in the SP.

The PS-3000 software included one of the versions of the Unix operating system, programming tools in Macroassembler, Pascal, Fortran-77, and C languages, libraries, and application software packages.

1984. The first man to walk in space, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, visited SRPA “Impulse”. A. Leonov got acquainted with the company’s developments and production. The visit resulted in a contract for the supply of computer equipment and software for the Cosmonaut Training Centre.