mike@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au (Mike Alder) (10/16/90)
We are looking for a commercially available parallel processing system hardware and software in the region of Oz$200,000 for applications involving neural nets. This rules out VLIW and systolic arrays and makes n-cubes unattractive. Something like a farm architecture is what we are after. We would prefer a system that is expandable as the money rolls in and with some scope for software and hardware configuration switching. Does anyone know of machines coming within cooee of this? Please reply to mike@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au or fax to Dr.M.D.Alder at (09) 380 1028 [Australia] or mike@madvax.maths.uwa.oz.au Early replies appreciated and acknowledged.
jov@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (JONES J P) (10/18/90)
In <10976@hubcap.clemson.edu> mike@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au (Mike Alder) writes: >We are looking for a commercially available parallel processing >system...in the region of Oz$200,000...expandable as the money rolls in... Recently got a flyer from Computer Systems Architects, 950 N. University Ave., Provo, Utah with lots of attractive-looking quotes on Transputer products. For example, 25 Mhz T805 w/ 1Mbyte @ US$1138 ea. So 64 of these things (4 each on 16 boards in a 21 slot VME crate) are $73K, right? Add a front-end & software & some other stuff and you have a pretty nifty system for about 100K. Money rolls in...add another crate-full. (a) Does this seem sensible to you? (What am I missing here?) (b) Does anyone have any direct experience with these systems? (Lotsa gotchas?) Judd Jones -- jonesjp@ornl.gov