PVR%autoctrl.rug.ac.be@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK ("Patrick Van Renterghem / Belg. Reg. Trans. Supp. Center") (04/09/90)
Dear bulletin board readers, We have been working with the rule-based language OPS5 for building production systems for some time and we like it. It runs nicely on VAX systems, but it might go a lot faster if implemented on transputer systems. Is there anyone out there who has done the work of implementing OPS5 on a transputer system, or who has a source of the OPS5 language in a normal programming language (preferably C), which we could parallelize ourselves. I know there is a company in Japan who has tried to do it, but I don't have any recent information about how far they have got, nor have I been able to extract their address from a Japanese paper I have about it. Does anyone (e.g. out there in Japan) have information about this or other companies who have tried to implement OPS5 on a transputer system, or does anyone know where I can get a C source of a language implementation ? People in the neighbourhood of Columbia University, N.Y., might be able to tell me the current state of the work on the DADO machine, which was a massively parallel machine for running production systems. Patrick