Very parallel systems.

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2 total messages Started by "Mr. Andy Packham" Fri, 04 Aug 1989 08:03

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Author: "Mr. Andy Packham"
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 08:03

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I've got some applications I would'nt mind trying out on a
transputer system. However, by their nature they are massively
parellel. Does anybody know of any boards for the PC or like that
could handle perhaps 100's of tasks, each task in its selt is
probably very simple so the processing power of each individual unit
can be low; ie something like a Z80 (retrograde development !) rather
than a T-whatever which would be overkill and too expensive !
Thanks for your help,


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Fri, 04 Aug 89 09:02:24 BST

Re: Very parallel systems.

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Author: John Painter - Sun BOS Hardware
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1989 00:00

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In article <$TFBCFDTJCGNF.at.UMPA> XUUM32@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk ("Mr. Andy Packham") writes:
>I've got some applications I would'nt mind trying out on a
>transputer system. However, by their nature they are massively
>parellel. Does anybody know of any boards for the PC or like that
>could handle perhaps 100's of tasks, each task in its selt is
>probably very simple so the processing power of each individual unit
>can be low; ie something like a Z80 (retrograde development !) rather
>than a T-whatever which would be overkill and too expensive !
>Thanks for your help,

Why not run several (8-16) transputers each running several tasks.
The channel communication is the same as 1 task on each processor
(with minor, hopefully hidden by your development system, differences
that are easy to overcome if they aren't) 


/Tjp

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