The Cydra-5 departmental supercomputer is the first minisupercomputer designed by Cydrome.
There are two types of processors functionally specialized for different components of workload.
[2] The numerical processor works on numerical computations and uses Cydrome’s "directed-dataflow" architecture,[1] a variant of VLIW.
However, these two processors share memory and peripherals, and the operating system manages both, so the user is presented with the illusion of a uniprocessor system.
[2] The host processor/attached processor approach was rejected because of its performance limitations.