ran@scs.carleton.ca (Randy B. Osborne) (04/28/91)
Folks:
What kind of a multiprocessor can one buy for $200K nowadays?
Both integer and floating point performance are important and
the more processors the better. Also, a uniform address space
model is preferrable over the non-uniform address space model
of such machines as the Intel iPSC. Who should I contact?
Randy Osborne
ran@scs.carleton.ca
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Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabellmoskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) (04/29/91)
For under $50k you can get Tadpole's TP881V boardset. It's three 6U
VME boards with 8 - 88100 (25 MHz) processors, 16 - 88200 Cache/MMU
units and lots of memory, all in a shared memory configuration. It
has an integral Ethernet hookup and SCSI port, plus a bunch of serial
ports. Add a VME chassis ( < $3k), a big disk ( < $2k), a tape drive
( < $1k), and a terminal and you've got a pretty powerful, reasonably
priced multiprocessor. And it integrates well into Sun networks.
We benchmarked a single 20 MHz 88000 at 10 times the speed of a Sun 3/60.
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Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell