gt4589b@prism.gatech.edu (Davis, Jr., Martin H.) (05/17/91)
I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that
NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors. The
article did not give any specifics, so I am wondering if anybody knows
anything more.
Thanks.
--Martin Davis
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Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabelllair@midway.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird) (05/18/91)
In article <1991May17.123722.17801@hubcap.clemson.edu> gt4589b@prism.gatech.edu (Davis, Jr., Martin H.) writes: > >I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that >NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors. The >article did not give any specifics, so I am wondering if anybody knows >anything more. > Well, according to the Chicago Tribune (the best I can do, sorry) it uses, get this, multiple i486's running in parallel. I'm not really a hardware type, but is this as crazy as it seems? An Intel based mainframe? Ouch. -- Scott A. Laird | Any semblance of the above to anything is purely lair@midway.uchicago.edu | coincidental, as it was the result of an infinite The University of Chicago | number of monkeys sneaking in to use my computer | for the afternoon. -- =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell
berryman-harry@CS.YALE.EDU (Harry Berryman) (05/19/91)
In article <1991May17.123722.17801@hubcap.clemson.edu> gt4589b@prism.gatech.edu (Davis, Jr., Martin H.) writes: > >I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that >NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors. The >article did not give any specifics, so I am wondering if anybody knows >anything more. I saw in a NY times article that the machine is going to be 486 based, and not specifically targeted to scientific computations. NCR was vague about the exact target market. Harry Scott Berryman (berryman@cs.yale.edu) Yale Compuiter Science Deptartment or ICASE/NASA Langley Research Center
warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) (05/23/91)
>>I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that >>NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors. The >>article did not give any specifics, so I am wondering if anybody knows >>anything more. >> > >Well, according to the Chicago Tribune (the best I can do, sorry) it uses, >get this, multiple i486's running in parallel. I'm not really a hardware type, >but is this as crazy as it seems? An Intel based mainframe? Ouch. Gee, Sequent has been doing this for the last few years with the 80386. It's a real screamer for the price. Probably one of the best transaction processing engines on the market ... certainly for the price. Uses either a BSD variant OS (Dynix) or a new System V variant (PTX). The new model will use 80486 CPUs. Now if I could just run an MS-DOS session on each Node ... ========================================================================== Warren Harrison warren@cs.pdx.edu Center for Software Quality Research 503/725-3108 Portland State University/CMPS -- =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell
dyes@convex.convex.com (Tim Dyes) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May23.180222.9483@hubcap.clemson.edu>, warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) writes: |> >>I read a newspaper article a couple of days ago in which was stated that |> >>NCR has announced a new mainframe computer using parallel processors.... The 5/20/91 issue of EE Times describes it as a 2000 Mips Unix mainframe geared for transaction processing. Comprised of 288 50MHz 486DX cpus accessing up to 300Gbytes of disk arrays. System price $1M-$8M.