lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo) (03/15/91)
Does anyone know about commercial/prototype systems that allow Transputer network to communicate via TCP/IP ? As far as I know the standard TDS protocols (AFSERVER and ISERVER) from Inmos do not offer such a possibility, even when Unix machines are used as a host. I know that there was an Inmos Ethernet board that only supported UDP, not TCP. However, I have no knowledge of non-Inmos products. References to commercial products and research papers will be appreciated. I'll summarize replies. Thanks Luigi
davidb@brac.inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) (03/18/91)
In article <68608@brunix.UUCP> lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo) writes: >Does anyone know about commercial/prototype systems that allow >Transputer network to communicate via TCP/IP ? As far as I know >the standard TDS protocols (AFSERVER and ISERVER) from Inmos do >not offer such a possibility, even when Unix machines are used as >a host. I know that there was an Inmos Ethernet board that only >supported UDP, not TCP. However, I have no knowledge of non-Inmos >products. The ISERVER *does* now offer such a possibility. There is an INMOS product called the IMS B300 which is a box you connect to your ethernet and has four link/subsystem ports. The B300 runs TCP/IP and communicates with ISERVERs running on your host machine. Hosts supported include SUN, VAX/VMS and PC-DOS. It is pretty easy to port the host software, so long as you have a BSD socket library. For those interested in going beyond the ISERVER, there is a transpter socket library which allows transputer applications to use TCP/IP directly. Elements of the B300, such as the IMS B018/IMS B431 hardware and the software in ROM will be sold separately. .. IMS B300 goes on beta site testing in ten days time. ...End of advert...contact a sales office for more info. David. David Boreham, INMOS Limited | mail(uk): davidb@inmos.co.uk or ukc!inmos!davidb Bristol, England | (us): uunet!inmos.com!davidb +44 454 616616 ex 547 | Internet: davidb@inmos.com
cca04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell) (03/18/91)
From article <68608@brunix.UUCP>, by lr@cs.brown.edu (Luigi Rizzo): > Does anyone know about commercial/prototype systems that allow > Transputer network to communicate via TCP/IP ? As far as I know > [...] I am only familliar with Meiko's CSTools software, but this does allow compilation of programs to run on transputers and Sun hosts and to all communicate using the same calls. Meiko provide both a transputer and a Sun version of the appropriate libraries. The transputer and Sun binaries can then all be run in the same job and communicate as if they were all transputer programs (apart from the byte order problems, handled by XDR routines). I hope this helps. -- 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