fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) (08/23/88)
The INMOS Transputer has been used by couple of companies in this area.
Floating Point Systems used the transputer as a controller in their somewhat
failed T-series computers. Cogent Research, a startup company located in the
Oregon Graduate Center Science Park, is developing a workstation implementing
the Linda primitives. Linda is a parallel processing concept which can be
put into the C language. For more information, the following articles give
a good overview:
David Gelernter, "Generative Communication in Linda", ACM TOPLAS,
Jan 1985, pp. 80-112. Original paper, but note that Linda has evolved
since then.
Nicholas Carriero & David Gelernter, "Linda and Friends", IEEE Computer,
August 1986, pp. 26-34. Good short overview on how Linda works.
Cogent is using the INMOS T800 for a node processor, though I do not know
how they are using the communication links. They are planning to have a
version of C++-Linda operating later this fall.
For more information on the Cogent Research, contact
Charles Vollum
Cogent Research Inc
1100 N.W. Compton Drive
Beaverton, OR 97006
(503) 690-1450
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