RICKG@gemew1.sdr.slb.com (Richard Goldsmith : MERLIN) (12/21/88)
In response to :- > From: wallen%ics@ucsd.edu (Mark Wallen) > > Could someone give me a pointer to transputer (the RISC processor from > Inmos) implementations for the Sun, specifically a Sun4? ... etc I saw a product exhibited at "COMPEC" exhibition in London Dec.87 by Niche Data Systems Inc in Houston (713-751-0055) and their U.K. operation - Niche Technology Ltd. Bristol , England +44 (0)272 298034. Manufacture may be in UK because of Inmos being here, but they launched the modular Transputer based "Advanced Computing Platform" (NT1000) just over a year ago for Sun/3 and Sun/4 chassis systems programmable directly in Fortran. It is a board which can take from one to 32 transputer/memory modules of the T4 or T8 variety and sits on the sun backplane using the full Sun environment - NFS, NeWS/X.11 SunView + Unix. Entry price around 13000 pounds Sterling. for enough power to get excited about (6 MFLOPS ish) with 4 transputer modules with 8 Mb mem each. With 8 NT1000's fully populated that goes up to 384 MFLOPS. I do not know if they thrived/survived or what! as we have not been in the market for purchasing such goodies, but I thought it worth posting this in case I have got Mark Wallen's addressing wrong and for general interest. Richard Goldsmith M_GEMEW1::RICKG on SINet (Schlumberger) Merlin Geophysical Ltd. Woking, England
RICKG@gemew1.sdr.slb.com (Richard Goldsmith : MERLIN) (01/03/89)
In response to wallen%ics@ucsd.edu (Mark Wallen): > Could someone give me a pointer to transputer (the RISC processor from > Inmos) implementations for the Sun, specifically a Sun4? ... etc I saw a product exhibited at "COMPEC" exhibition in London Dec.87 by Niche Data Systems Inc in Houston (713-751-0055) and their U.K. operation - Niche Technology Ltd. Bristol , England +44 (0)272 298034. Manufacture may be in UK because of Inmos being here, but they launched the modular Transputer based "Advanced Computing Platform" (NT1000) just over a year ago for Sun/3 and Sun/4 chassis systems programmable directly in Fortran. It is a board which can take from one to 32 transputer/memory modules of the T4 or T8 variety and sits on the sun backplane using the full Sun environment - NFS, NeWS/X.11 SunView + Unix. Entry price around 13000 pounds Sterling. for enough power to get excited about (6 MFLOPS ish) with 4 transputer modules with 8 Mb mem each. With 8 NT1000's fully populated that goes up to 384 MFLOPS. I do not know if they thrived/survived or what! as we have not been in the market for purchasing such goodies, but I thought it worth posting this in case I have got Mark Wallen's addressing wrong and for general interest. Richard Goldsmith M_GEMEW1::RICKG on SINet (Schlumberger) Merlin Geophysical Ltd. Woking, England RICKG@GEMEW1.SDR.SLB.COM (csnet)