How many Transputers are enough?

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2 total messages Started by Harald Schmidt Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:28

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Author: Harald Schmidt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:28

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Hallihallo,

does anybody know the max. number of transputers I can connect,
and the resulting MIPS/MFLOPS.
What is the best price/power-ratio?

Thanks for any infomation,

	Harald
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Re: How many Transputers are enough?

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Author: Helmut Heller
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:53

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In article <1992Aug13.102814.12544@aiware.in-berlin.de> scm@aiware.in-berlin.de  
(Harald Schmidt) writes:
> Hallihallo,
> 
> does anybody know the max. number of transputers I can connect,
> and the resulting MIPS/MFLOPS.
> What is the best price/power-ratio?
> 
> Thanks for any infomation,
> 
> 	Harald
> -- 
There is no maximal number, only your financial funds will limit the size of your  
machine :-).
The theoretical MIPS/MFLOPS performance increases linear with the number of your  
Transputers, but the actual MIPS/MFLOPS value will be less than that, strongly  
depending on your application.
Therefore, with 1 Transputer you will get the best price/power-ratio, but this is  
probably not what you want :-)

64 or 128 T800 make quite a nice machine. If you want to test your application  
first, before you spend DM 100000s, I could offer you a guest login on our  
Transputer guest account tguest. There you could experiment with up to 5 T800 for  
free. Send me e-mail if you are interested.

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