ALLEN@bio-medical-physics.aberdeen.ac.uk (03/15/91)
Peter Clayton asks: > Can anyone tell me if there is a commercially available single-transputer > board for the Sun SBus, in the vain of the b004 or b008 for the IBM PC bus? > I am looking for a reasonably priced way of interfacing an external > transputer cluster to a Sun IPC through the SBus. > Peter As no-one else seems to have replied to this... The only transputer Sbus board I am aware of is made by Archipel (a French company): Volvox-1/S. Can have T4/T8 and 1 or 4 MB. 3 links + sys. serv. to external conector. They also advertise Volvox-Par, a software package for integrating transputers into your application running on the Sun. The UK price (through Digitimer (Tel. +44 707 328347)) for Volvox-1/S (T8-20 + 1 MB) was 1680 pounds in Sept 1990. Volvox-Par: 950 pounds. Archipel are at: P.A.E. du Levray-Cran 4 route de Nanfray 74000 Annecy France. Usual disclaimers. Anyone using Archipel (or any other) Sbus hardware? Alastair Allen. University of Aberdeen UK. allen@uk.ac.abdn.biomed
gordon@meiko.co.uk (Gordon Henderson) (03/15/91)
Here at Meiko we have an SBus transputer card. It has a T800 with 1Meg of RAM shared with the sparc and a Meiko ``to-slave'' and inter- cabinet link connector. It allows you to run CS-Tools applications in an externally connected Meiko Computing Surface. +--------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+ | Gordon Henderson | gordon@uk.co.meiko | Tel: +44 454 616171 | | Meiko Test & Diagnostics | | Fax: +44 454 618188 | +--------------------------+--------------------+---------------------+