[comp.misc] Any experience/comments with Multiflow machines?

darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) (03/31/88)

Does anyone have any comments or experience with the Multiflow machines?
In particular, anything "bad" that didn't come in their sales promo.

Here are my first assumptions, correct me if I am off target:

  + able to make use of existing code (dusty decks) and parallelize it
      without code modification (ie. transforming DO loops, etc.)
  + inexpensive
  + will run faster than Alliant, Convex computers for programs
      that aren't vectorizable or conducive to their optimizing
      compilers
  - will run slower than above machines if programs are highly
      vectorizable and/or are modified to take advantage of
      the target machine.

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