brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (11/12/88)
I am interested in obtaining a list of companies that are offering shared
memory multiprocessors. I am specifically interested in machines which share
a large common memory in a finely interleaved way, machines such as the BBN
butterfly for which you have to lay out your data in seperate memories either
by hand or using vendor supplied library calls are a no go. The processors
may have local memory, either implemented with coherent caches or as stack
memory for individual processors. I am looking for systems for which prices
would range from 50K and upwards, depending on the number of processors and
memory size ordered. If any one knows of a suitable source of such hardware
which has been announced, or is about to be announced, I would appreciate a
pointer sent via email. If there is interest I would be happy to post a
complete compiled list to the net.
Thanks,
Eugene
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through lll-crg may be unreliable for a while.aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) (11/13/88)
Eugene Brooks writes:
I am specifically interested in machines which share a large common
memory in a finely interleaved way, machines such as the BBN butterfly
for which you have to lay out your data in seperate memories either by
hand or using vendor supplied library calls are a no go.
You want to be careful to separate the hardware from the software. For
example, Butterfly Scheme offers a totally uniform memory access
model.
Albert Boulanger
BBN Systems and Technlogies Corp.
aboulanger@bbn.com