andy@toast.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Andy Pfiffer) (02/08/88)
After a long day of compiling and wandering through snow sculptures in Houghton, Michigan, Trillium is now available for the Floating Point Systems T-40. Up until then, it was known only to run on T-20's. We are now also Ultrix 1.2 compatible. We'd really like to thank the friendly folks at Michigan Technological University for giving us the opportunity to use their systems. We had a lot of fun and a real adventure getting into and out of Houghton... For the uninformed, a T-20 is a 16 node, Transputer based hypercube with a 10 MFLOP or so vector processor bolted on to each node. A T-40 is simply 2 T-20's (ie: 32 nodes) cabled together. Trillium is a message- passing operating system developed at Cornell that, to the level of source-code compatibilty, provides a homogeneous C and Fortran environment from each Transputer in a T-Series to your favorite Sun workstation. Trillium -- coming soon to a Transputer system near you... :^) Greg Burns Andy Pfiffer Dave Fielding -- Andy Pfiffer andy@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center / Cornell U. cornell!batcomputer!andy Home of the first usable T-Series (607) 255-8686 "...that's the way a Transputer works, right?" Trillium Diving Team