[comp.sys.transputer] shared memory

douin@vmucnam.UUCP (Douin Jean Michel) (06/03/88)

Yet another funny idea :

   Does anybody know about using shared bus memory 
   with transputerS ?
   ( apart from link transfer )

   thanks for any help

   jean-michel ( ...!mcvax!inria!vmucnam!douin )

andy@snowwhite.UUCP (Andy Pfiffer) (06/30/88)

 +---- Douin Jean Michel in "Subject: shared memory" - Fri Jun 3  @ 3:17pm
 | Yet another funny idea :
 | 
 |    Does anybody know about using shared bus memory 
 |    with transputer?
 +----

I met an Australian fellow at the recent Boston Supercomputer Show and the
company he works for has a proprietary box chock full of Transputers, a
large percentage of which are tied together with shared memory and with
links.

I *believe* he said that there was a sum total of about 40 MB
of total shared memory, scattered about the machine.

My impression is that it is a digital effects generator for broadcast
video.

	Andy


--
Andy Pfiffer			  Topologix, Inc. (303) 421-7700
Trillium Diving Team              4860 Ward Road / Denver, CO 80033
            "...that's the way a Transputer works, right?"

STILES@USU.BITNET (07/15/88)

We would also be interested in hearing about any shared memory efforts.  We
are doing some work on image processing that would certainly benefit by not
having to use the links so much ....

I am aware of some shared memory projects underway at Tektronix, UCSD, and
U. of Arizona.

Dyke Stiles
Stiles@USU.Bitnet

billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O) (07/15/88)

In article <8806301528.AA01029@snowwhite.com> andy@snowwhite.UUCP (Andy Pfiffer) writes:
> +---- Douin Jean Michel in "Subject: shared memory" - Fri Jun 3  @ 3:17pm
> |    Does anybody know about using shared bus memory 
> |    with transputer?
>I met an Australian fellow at the recent Boston Supercomputer Show and the
>...
>I *believe* he said that there was a sum total of about 40 MB
>of total shared memory, scattered about the machine.
>Andy Pfiffer			  Topologix, Inc. (303) 421-7700
                                  ***************

I had heard that Topologix had plans for a shared-memory transputer
board, (that is, the transputers sharing memory with each other, not
just the host). Is this 

1) true
2) hogwash
3) not necessarily either of the above?

Has anyone else heard this rumor (fact?)?

Bill O'Farrell, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
(billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu)