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Advantages of special purpose computer

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The main advantage of the special-purpose systems is the possibility to utilize a much higher fraction of available silicon to actually do calculations. ... All the rest of the calculation, such as the time integration of the orbits of particles, I/O, and diagnostics are handled by a general-purpose host computer..

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