nCUBE 2E on ebay

Might be fun for someone in Ohio. Wrong part of the country for me. http://www.ebay.com/itm/nCube-2e-Hypercube-parallel-computer-1994-/26121499… Here's an original press release on it. What sort of processors did these use ? NCube Inc, one of the small band of sturdy massively parallel processing pioneers, reckons that it may need to crash the entry price of its machines to popularise the concept, and yesterday it announced the nCube 2E series, starting with just eight and going to 128 of the company's proprietary processors, with an entry price of $30,000. In full configuration, it is claimed to offer five times the performance of mainframe systems - but that depends on users writing applications that can keep all the processors popping, and that is the hard part. The nCube 2E series is designed to operate as a stand-alone system or as a networked extension of existing computing resources, integrating into environments of supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and workstations from multiple vendors. Using the nCube Parallel Software Environment, applications developed for an eight-processor nCube 2E system will run unchanged on an nCube 2S computer with as many as 8,192 processors, so serious potential users can make an affordable investment in the thing to decide whether they really like it before making a real commitment. A fully configured nCube 2E will deliver up to 1,280 MIPS and 422 MFLOPS, the company says. The nCube 2E comes with from 32Mb to 4Gb memory and up to 24Gb of disk. It has up to 64 input-output channels, supports TCP/IP and Ethernet, has C++, C, and Fortran libraries with VAX extensions, supports Oracle in a client-server environment and fits in a deskside cabinet 29 by 18 by 30.