distributed array processor , DAP (Abkürzung)

ICL Distributed Array Processor (DAP)

Distributed Array Processor, the first commercial massively parallel computer (ICL/Active Memory Technology/Cambridge Parallel Processors)

The Distributed Array Processor (DAP) produced by International Computers Limited (ICL) was the world's first commercial massively parallel computer.

The Unit develops the application of high performance computers such as Distributed Array Processors and transputer arrays to problems in molecular biology including problems of sequence comparison and database searching.

DAP FORTRAN was an extension of the non IO parts of FORTRAN with constructs that supported parallel computing for the ICL Distributed Array Processor (DAP).