28 May
1999
28 May
'99
6:41 a.m.
Two large chassis (size of old fridge) rolled into the
salvage yard near
me, labeled MassPar and one of them has 8 big, I think, MFM drives in it.
Anybody know what this stuff is, or have interest in it? Its cheap, and
looks intact and very good shape.
It's a massively parallel supercomputer containing thousands of four bit
processors. It's a SIMD model; i.e., the thousands of four bit processors
are all executing the same instruction simultaneously. MassPar was working
on special FORTRAN and C compilers to run the thing. It's controlled by
a Digital Ultrix workstation, either a Firefox or a DECstation 5000 depending
on its age.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu