Supercomputers, fishing for information

[Al Kossow]

there are no useful pictures in the brochures

it appears the SRM is integrated into the cabinet and controls 16 nodes

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/assets/pdf/techreports/1991/rnr-91-001.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20010619235148/http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccsurvey/orgs/intel/intel.html
since the original appears to be gone

Paul Pierce was archiving information on these systems. We have a little in the CHM collection, not a whole
lot on the PSC/860

I have a manual set for the Paragon. It is in silver slipcases


On 11/5/16 7:48 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>> let me see if I can get this scanned this morning
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102719961
> 
> That would be awesome!
> 
>> you also REALLY want to get any docs and tapes/disks out of there
>> finding software is going to be extremely difficult
> 
> Yes, I realize that; the difficulty lies in directing them in what to
> look for; "anything that says Intel, Ardent, or Convex on it" is a
> good beginning, but the more specific I can be in what I ask for, the
> higher the chance it'll turn up.
> 
> Camiel.
> 
>> On 11/5/16 7:02 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
>>
>>> - Does anyone know what the SRM (System Resource Manager) for the
>>> iPSC/860 physically looks like? Does it look like a PC, and does it
>>> say Intel on the front?
>>