eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (05/05/90)
In article <10199@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> kahn@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn) writes: >SSI is not out of business. >I know what you mean, but E&S is also not out of business. >You really should be careful who you declare out of business on the net >with such a wide audience. THANK YOU for noting the editing mistake. It's okay, happens all the time ;). Not the first time one's been misquoted and Marty can handle himself. He wasn't declaring them out of business. In fact, ames gives SSI a mail gateway to the Internet. The explanation for E&S was actually probably necessary. Only the people in graphics realize they sell $10M flight simulator computer image generators. We have one of their CT-5A units in another part of Ames. These kind of are supers. >The best supercomputer is yet to be built. (perhaps a >perpetually true statement.) >And in my opinion, the market *is* large enough to accomodate several >companies. Certainly the 'global market' is. I would tend to disagree with you. I don't think the market is large, there's more political hot air than necessary. The problem as I see it is that we need a next stage of integration. I think that as the semiconductor technology begins to top out it's going to become important to produce modules (which include software) that non-CS types can put together and make their own application specific "supercomputers." We are seeing more and more functionality in a given chip, it's when it makes the software leap (things like routing in this sense are dumb), such a stage will come to pass. The two companies I've seen thinking about this are DEC and independently Rockwell. There will be others. --e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (05/05/90)
In article <5971@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes: >The explanation for E&S was >actually probably necessary. Only the people in graphics realize they >sell $10M flight simulator computer image generators. We have one of >their CT-5A units in another part of Ames. These kind of are supers. They also now sell 3D workstations that are based on the Mips R3000 and are object-compatible with Mips, Tandem, Pyramid, CDC, and other vendors' 2D workstations and servers. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 MS 4-02 950 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 voicemail: +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I'm the NLA" "Two guys, one cart, fresh pasta... *you* figure it out." -- Suzanne Sugarbaker