IBM buys 50 000 transputers !?!?!?

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2 total messages Started by Patrick Van Renterghem / Transpu... Fri, 24 Feb 1989 15:35

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Author: Patrick Van Renterghem / Transpu...
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 15:35

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True or false ?
 
I read in a Belgian magazine that IBM has ordered 50000 transputers from Inmos
in november for an internal supercomputing project. How much of this is true ?
 
Patrick

Re: IBM buys 50 000 transputers !?!?!?

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Author: Sean Brunnock
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 03:45

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From article <8902241626.AA10841@uk.ac.ox.prg>, 
by PVR%bgerug51.earn@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK 
(Patrick Van Renterghem / Transputer Lab):

> I read in a Belgian magazine that IBM has ordered 
> 50000 transputers from Inmos
> in november for an internal supercomputing project. 
> How much of this is true ?

  IBM does have a supercomputing project which is headed
by Dr. Chen (formerly of Cray). In a TIME magazine article,
he is quoted to be aiming for a 256 processor machine which
would be capable of 1 billion operations per second.

			Sean Brunnock

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