30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
6:19 p.m.
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sean wrote....
> I seem to recall a supercomputer made by Intel
that used Pentiums. I
> forget the name though, but it was quite a behemoth of a machine from what
> little I recall (many CPUs).
Wasn't that "The Connection Machine"?
Nope. Connection Machines were made by Thinking Machines, Inc., and they
don't use Pentiums. They use gobs (up to something like 16k) of proprietary
processors.
The ASCI Red supercomputer built by Intel used PPros; see
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aries/course/notes/ascii_red.pdf. I think
the compute nodes were pretty off-the-shelf SMP PPro designs, so some might
consider it off-topic.