19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
6:57 a.m.
The BBN CPUs are odd in that they don't plug into
a socket
This is a BBN Butterfly system. The processors interconnect through
a "Butterfly Switch"
I have to check with the Computer Museum, but this may be the only
surviving system. It's a drag you weren't able to save at least one
of the chassis.
try googling "bbn butterfly switch"
Butterfly Switch
A parallel processing topology from BBN Advanced Computers Inc., Cambridge, MA, that
mimics a crossbar and provides high-speed switching of data between nodes. It can also be
used to create a hypercube topology.