29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
8:51 p.m.
Another computer I had access to (but sadly, never
played with to any
degree---sigh) was the Maspar.
I remember those! We had one (with, I think, only about 2K CPUs in the
parallel part) when I was at McGill.
My first, and so far only, practical experience with a SIMD machine.
And you could only program the thing in Fortran (which
is probably
explains why I or my friends didn't do anything with it).
The one I used used a slightly mutant C.
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