30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
4:45 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Ken Seefried once stated:
From: "Jay West" <jwest at
classiccmp.org>
Sean wrote....
>Wasn't that "The Connection Machine"?
Nope. I did a search and it was the Intel Paragon I was thinking of,
which actually used i860s and not Pentiums. Ah well ...
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). 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.
Ah, so the PPro *was* used in a super computer.
-spc (Now I don't feel so bad ... )