davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) (03/15/90)
Someone asked about a 64K node system. Then Steve Zenith posted something which I think meant that there is no 64K node system. Well, I've never heard of a machine that big but there are quite a few black hole tranpsuter projects around which I'm sure even Steve hasn't heard about :) Biggest machine I've seen was 1K nodes and the biggest I've heard about is the Marconi radar in this weeks Electronics Weekly which as 4K nodes. David.
stiv@stat5.rice.edu (david n stivers) (03/16/90)
There is a machine called the Connection Machine, which is made by Thinking Machines of Cambridge, Massachusetts which has 64K nodes. The CPU's aren't transputers, though. Incidentally, I'm using 4 Levco Translink boards w/4 20Mhz T800's on each board installed in a MacII. I'm using a beta version of Express 3.0. Is anyone out there using a similiar set up? Any comments on Levco? My impression is that they're not doing so well. They have a decent product, but writing drivers and stuff for the Mac is a real pain in the butt. Fortunately Express does all that for you, but like I said, it's a beta version. david n stivers stiv@stat5.rice.edu
zenith-steven@cs.yale.edu (Steven Ericsson Zenith) (03/16/90)
In article <397.9003151333@brac.inmos.co.uk>, davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) writes: > > Well, I've never heard of a machine that big but there are > quite a few black hole tranpsuter projects around which I'm > sure even Steve hasn't heard about :) > Black holes with this much mass are pretty difficult to hide. Checkout the number of transputers sold in the past two years and you'll see what I mean :-) > > David. -- . . Steven Ericsson Zenith * email: zenith@cs.yale.edu Department of Computer Science | voice: (203) 432 1278 Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06520 USA. "All can know beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness"
iang@wraith.cs.uow.oz (Ian Gorton) (03/19/90)
In article <5788@brazos.Rice.edu>, stiv@stat5.rice.edu (david n stivers) writes: > Is anyone out there using a similiar set up? Any comments on Levco? > My impression is that they're not doing so well. They have a decent > product, but writing drivers and stuff for the Mac is a real pain in the > butt. Fortunately Express does all that for you, but like I said, it's a > beta version. We've got a Levco board and TDS running on the Mac. The hardware seems fine, but the TDS is STILL a beta version, and bug-ridden with very poor documentation. This situation has not changed for over a year, despite constant communications (from me, not Levco). I'm at the stage where I'm going to move to PCs if they don't release production software soon. I would not recommend anyone to buy Levco products. -Ian