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From: HALLAM@physics.oxford.ac.uk ("Phillip M. Hallam-Baker")
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Subject: Re 64K Node Machine
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Date: 16 Mar 90 09:46:24 GMT
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At Southampton there is a big(ish) array of 1260 T212's without external
RAM (called `Deep Thought' as each board has 42 nodes...). There was talk
of upgrading the RAM to 64K per node at one time maybe someone garbbled the
message somwhere? - either from that machine or a similar T2 engine. Quite
what can be done with a 64K NODE machine I don't know - surely the link
speed would start to be a problem? If not that how about the physical cooling
/mounting engineering type problems? Where to get the 256 Gigabytes of RAM to
make it worth while? Sounds like a fun project! - Anybody out there want to
write me a blank cheque to build one?

			Phillip Hallam-Baker


				Oxford University Nuclear Physics
				ZEUS group 

"You don't have to write in FORTRAN to work here - but it helps."