大规模并行处理系统旨在满足国防和国民经济许多重要应用领域对高性能计算能力的需求。长期以来，结构上的可扩性和编程上的友好性一直是并行计算机系统设计中追求的重要而又互相矛盾的两个目标。文章结合研究实践，对大规模并行处理机系统（MPP)可扩展性设计的若干问题进行探讨。

The massively parallel processor (MPP) has been designed to meet the requirements for the high performance computing in many application fields of both national defense and economy. The structural scalability and the friendly programming are the two important and conflicting goals in designing a MPP system. Based on practice, the issues on the scalable design of MPPs are discussed in this paper.