19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
7:14 a.m.
At 12:57 PM 11/19/04 -0800, you wrote:
That's what Tom says. He's been looking for one for years.
It's a drag you weren't able to save at least one
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. of the chassis.
Tom and I are working hard to try and find a way to get one or more of the chassis. The
problem is that I don't have a truck AND the warehouse that I use to store and ship
from is probably going to go away SOON. I no longer have access to the forklift so loading
on a truck would be a problem even if I could get it there. These aren't complete
chassis anyway, they're just the CPU sections.
Joe
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.