tdonahue@europa.bbn.com (Tim Donahue) (11/05/90)
In article <42413@mips.mips.COM>, mash@mips (John Mashey) writes: >... >Hence, if there are going to be big technical servers in 1991, it's probably >up to Encore... If there aren't some in this market in 1991, 1992 won't >matter very much... BBN Advanced Computers manufactures and sells the TC2000, a scalable shared-memory multiprocessor based on the 88K. Each function card consists of one 88100 and three 88200s, 16 Mb of memory, and a VMEbus interface. Function cards communicate and share memory via our proprietary Butterfly network switch interconnect. The system runs nX, compliant with UNIX 4.3bsd, and optionally pSOS+m, a small, high-performance real-time kernel developed by Software Components Group. Systems with up to 64 processors are available now. A 128 processor system is scheduled for delivery early next year. The architectural limit is 512, and we've seen interest for systems much larger than that. The TC2000 makes a fine "big technical server", and has been available for sale since June 1989. Didn't we show you one when you spoke here, John? #) >-john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> Cheers, Tim PS: Sorry about the plug...we sometimes don't get the attention we deserve.