eugene@ames-lm.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (05/23/84)
Depending on what your interests were, Burroughs had two big machines which did not reach commercial realization. The Burroughs Scientific Processor (BSP) and the Burroughs Flow Model Processor (FMP) which was a proposed machine for fluid dynamics research here at Ames. The person to contact for further technical details is Steve Lundstrom (lundstrom@su-score [ARPA]) who headed the Burroughs project FMP Project. I get my information several months second hand. A BSP was built and had some test performance problems which could be solved. Ames wanted a much more powerful machine which was to have up to 256 processors connected by an Omega network [FMP]. A competitive bid was put out which CDC and Burroughs proposed (I think paper where published, either IEEE TOC or Compcon in the 1980s.). Neither proposal was acceptable to Ames [just not enough MFLOPS]. Cray did not bid as they don't make highly custom machines. The other proposals died on the vine. The people that wanted those machines have reorganized into the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program which is now getting a Cray-2 (still not fast enough). I will be posting something for them in net.jobs shortly. --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr.