cca04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell) (04/19/91)
In this Thursday's (18th April) "computer" Guardian I read, under the banner, "Transputing"... "Inmos has finally unveiled the T-9000 Transputer processor, formerly known by it's code name, H1. It claims a peak performance of 200 mips and 25 megaflops (million floating point operations per second). The sustained performance is 115 mips/18 megaflops. The T-9000 is thus about 10 times faster than the T-800, with which it is compatible. The new chip will be used as an embedded controller (inside photocopiers etc), in communications and parallel processing/ supercomputing applications." Anyone care to comment (like when, where and how much) ? -- Paul Mitchell (CMA#86(18) MAG#65715 DoD#0145) | Physics Department, JANET: p.j.mitchell@uk.ac.keele.seq1 | Keele University, Keele, USENET: p.j.mitchell@seq1.keele.ac.uk | Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, U.K. BITNET: p.j.mitchell%seq1.keele.ac.uk@ukacrl | (+44 or 0)782 621111 ext 3966
tom@concerto.chorus.fr (Michel Tombroff) (04/21/91)
In <1093@keele.keele.ac.uk>, Paul Mitchell writes (about the H1): >> [...] >> The new chip will be used as an embedded controller (inside >> photocopiers etc), in communications and parallel processing/ >> supercomputing applications." >> [...] I'd like to add that the H1 (sorry, the T9000) will also support a full UNIX System V system, enhanced with BSD functionnalities (sockets), distribution and real-time capabilities. The operating system, currently being developed by teams from ARCHIPEL, Chorus systemes and INMOS, is based on the Chorus micro-kernel architecture. The project will be presented next week at TRANSPUTING'91, in Sunnyvale, CA. For more info, you can email me directly. -tom ________________________________________________________________________ Michel Tombroff Tel: +33 (1) 30 64 82 77 Chorus Systemes Fax: +33 (1) 30 57 00 66 6 Av. Gustave Eiffel Email: tom@chorus.fr 78182 Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines France