24 May
2016
24 May
'16
12:37 p.m.
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Charles Anthony <
charles.unix.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
Oops. Connection Machine, not Transputer.
It probably still impressed the suits when they walked the data center.
I've done data center tours with row after row of HP or Dell x86 servers
and it's not much to look at.
Definitely.
Several OSes would show distinctive 'idle' patterns on the lights, this
provided a quick visual cue about system load for the big multi-user
systems.
As I understand it, the Transputer (an early multicpu system designed to
parallel computation had a simple buf effective display -- an LED for for
each CPU indicatiing if the CPU was working or idle, this told you at a
glance if you parallelization algortihim was effective.
-- Charles