29 May
2011
29 May
'11
3:39 p.m.
On 5/29/11 6:26 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Good heavens. Transputers were by no means "early attempts" at
massively parallel machines.
Yikes.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
With current
multicore CPUs and the SIMD arrays in GPUs, one could
argue that Transputer, ConnectionMachine, etc., were just too early.
Well, yes. A lot of early attempts at *anything* kind of sucked. We
are now 20 odd years past the MPP "boom" of the mid 80s - I certainly
hope technology would have marched on during those years.