Wayne.Roorda@p0.f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Roorda) (07/28/90)
Index Number: 9575
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
The following I picked up from the comp.graphics news group
and passing it along for your interest (if any). BTW do
any of you happen to know Malcolm Slaney or know of him or
his work?
From: malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray,comp.graphics,comp.parallel
Subject: Visualization Machines
Keywords: visualization, machines, fast
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
What are good machines for scientific visualizations? We have
a Cray but I'm looking around for other machines that can do
my work nearly as fast.
My research (models of human hearing) can support parallelism
and lots of vectorization. I want to be able to compute
something and then display the result very quickly (20 frames
per second) on a monitor.
I guess the numbers that are important to me are >100 MFlops
of peak performance and > 25 Mega-pixels per second output
rate (at the same time.)
Should I think about Convex? What about the new Connection
Machine? Machines like the DAP and the MassPar seem to be
too hard to program (I want to do new research in hearing,
not algorithm development.)
What do people think?
Thanks.
Malcolm Slaney
Apple Perception Group
malcolm@apple.com
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