jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) (02/25/89)
Hello there, has anyone seen or heard anything about the Chorus compute server for the Macintosh? I saw it mentioned in MacWeek and was intrigued. It is apparently between 1 and 16 Transputers in a MacII sized box with Appletalk and/or Ethertalk connection, a 20 meg caching drive, network processor and capability of running code written under a modified MPW environment. It was supposed to supposed to support C, Pascal and Fortran. Speed was supposed to be between an Alliant FX/1 and a Cray X/MP-48 for the 16 processor version. The catch is that that was $75000! Now what I want to know is, has anyone seen the beast? Does it work? Can it be easily programmed (sic)? I sent for the literature, but am suspicious of anything that doesnt have a picture of the product in the brochure. Is it real or is it...? Please reply to me by email, thanks. John Mansfield North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143. 313-936-3352 Internet: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu or john_mansfield.um.cc.umich.edu