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From: priol@irisa.irisa.fr (Thierry Priol,TB131,Equipe Pandore,9936200-547,)
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Subject: Re: New Intel mutliprocessor machine?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 08:17:27 GMT
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From article <3300095@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by kale@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
> 
> Would someone please post a more detailed technical summary of the new IPSC?
> 
> Sorry no answer to the poster's questions.
> (Although I don't think vendors are supllying such automatic
> parallelization tools for distributed memory machines yet).
> 
> 
> kale@cs.uiuc.edu
> L.V. Kale
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of Illinois
> 1304 W. Springfield Ave.
> Urbana, IL-61801

The new iPSC from Intel is in fact an iPSC/2. The "old" 80386 is replaced
by a i860. The communication processor is the same. The latency is less
because NX/2 run faster on i860. This new machine expands from 8 processors
to 128 processors (480 Mflops to 7.6 Gflops, peak performance of course).
Prices seem to be from 250,000$ (8 PEs) to 3,000,000$ (128 PEs). It is
compatible with the iPSC/2. Parallelogram (Issue 22, January 1990) has
a paper on this machine.

Thierry PRIOL

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