km@gatech.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (09/16/88)
Is there any inexpensive shared memory multiprocessor
hardware available? Our application is for academic use
in a course on parallel processing, to give the students
some hands on experience.
The speed of the hardware is not especially important.
What we have in mind is some add in boards for our existing
Suns, MacIIs, or PCs. There are several companies that make
this kind of hardware with several transputers per board,
but none that has shared memory.
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Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED
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This is a reposting. My apologies if you have seen this before, but it
never made it back to our site from the moderator the first time.
We are looking for a shared memory multiprocessor for student use in a
parallel processing course. In this setting performance is not very
important but cost is. There are many low cost hypercube addin boards
in this category for the non shared memory case. There are boards for
PCs, Macs, and Suns. In the shared memory case I have seen nothing but
standalone production oriented systems (Encore, Sequent, etc), which
inevitably means paying more for peripherals and cabinets than the
multiprocessor.
Does anyone know of some hardware I have overlooked?
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Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED
Emory University | {decvax,gatech}!emory!km UUCP
Dept of Math and CS | km@emory NON-DOMAIN BITNET
Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963