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From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: parallel systems
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Date: 24 Oct 89 03:35:07 GMT
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In article <20764@usc.edu> vorbrueg@bufo.usc.edu (Jan Vorbrueggen) writes:
>Eugene, ever seen a transputer? Overhead for receiving or sending a 
Yes I have, a group here is trying to use them in a image processing project.

>Message forwarding isn't so difficult either. I've read of a system
>requiring less than 10 us overhead per through-route (this probably
>is for the destination link being available). No interrupt handling
>involved here - that part is all handled in hardware.
This level of overhead for each hop is completely intolerable.


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