lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) (06/06/89)
HP has announced that the Apollo 10,000 will be phased out. Since new machines are being invented at an amazing rate, I suppose it's inevitable that some vanish. It's just a real shame when camels live and stallions die. Would any of its designers care to tell us what we're losing? -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science --
roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom) (06/07/89)
In article <5125@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes: > >HP has announced that the Apollo 10,000 will be phased out. > >Since new machines are being invented at an amazing rate, I suppose >it's inevitable that some vanish. It's just a real shame when camels >live and stallions die. > When I was at the Hannover Messe a couple of months back the DN10000VS was on display. I thought it was the most impressive mini displayed at the fair. Come to think of it our new mini was being displayed so better make that "second most impressive mini" :-). I picked up a technical sheet they were giving out. Here's some data: The system is a 64 bit architecture. The central X-bus as they call it can take 150 Mb/s. You can put up to 4 cpus on it, 128 Mb of physical memory and a graphics subsystem. It can connect through a special interface to a 32-bit 12Mb/s VMEbus _and_ a 16-bit 3Mb/s pc/at bus. cpu apollo prism risc multiprocessor 64 bit architecture consisting of a 32x32 integer register file and 2 ecl floating point processors each(?) consisting of a 32x64 or 64x32 floating point register file. 128 kb instruction cache and 64 kb data cache both with 64 bit line size. memory 8-128 kb graphics subsystem 1.1 million 3d vector transformations/s 65 million pixels/s by plane fills graphics screen 1280x1024 70 hz noninterlaced 0.26 mm pixel size (the graphics quality was the best I'v ever seen) digital signal processing 3.9 ms for a complex fourier transformation of 1024 points (5.3 ms in double precision) per cpu performance 15-30 vax mips (1 cpu) 36 double precision mflops peak (1 cpu) 1.5 million 4x4 matrix transformations/s 27000 drystones/s (1 cpu) 5.8 double-precision linpack megaflops The sheet keeps talking about "1 cpu" and not "per cpu" so I suspect that a multiprocessor version was not yet working. I think its a shame that hp has decided to kill this one, I guess the good do sometimes die young. -- Roelof Vuurboom SSP/V3 Philips TDS Apeldoorn, The Netherlands +31 55 432226 domain: roelof@idca.tds.philips.nl uucp: ...!mcvax!philapd!roelof
mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts) (06/08/89)
From article <131@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>, by roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom): > > The sheet keeps talking about "1 cpu" and not "per cpu" so I suspect that > a multiprocessor version was not yet working. The multiprocessor version is shipping and working just fine. -- Michael Butts, Research Engineer KC7IT 503-626-1302 Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, OR 97005 ...!{sequent,tessi,apollo}!mntgfx!mbutts OR mbutts@pdx.MENTOR.COM Opinions are my own, not necessarily those of Mentor Graphics Corp.