rob@bashfull.UUCP (Rob Savoye) (06/14/88)
We sell a 9U VME board for Sun3's that has four transputers on it with 16 M of memory per node. To get the 200Mflops you would need 33 or 34 boards. The main thing you would probably be interested in is our development environment. We have built a full graphics a windowing based system. Our user interface comes with 4 parts: 1. A full-featured mouse-driven editor as well as the Hemlock (emacs) editor from CMU's Spice LISP. 2. A CAD program to draw network configurations. Our hardware can be reconfigured into almost anything, grids, hypercubes, pipes, etc... 3. A graphics performance monitor used for load balancing the CPU loads and link traffic. 4. A graphical interface to our operating system, which is derived from Cornell's Trillium (Trollius) project. We have worked hard to make our compilers SunOS compatible. Our C, Fortran and LISP are fully SunOS source code compatible. Basically, we built this thing to look like a network of Sun's rather than some weird, complicated piece of silicon. Near future projects include porting X windows and various math libraries. Our message passing extensions are designed to mimic BSD sockets and are easier to use than most other UNIX IPC. I know of a few people who have ported neural network stuff and image transformations to our hardware and they seem reasonable pleased. As far as the random floating point stuff T800's are fast. 1.5 sustained Mflops per chip. Rob Savoye Topologix, Inc. 4860 Ward Rd. Denver, CO 80033 uucp: ..!hao!boulder!snowwhite!bashfull!rob