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From: mike@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au (Mike Alder)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Help on hardware purchase requested
Summary: help on hardware purchase
Keywords: oems architecture
Message-ID: <10976@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:15:32 GMT
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Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
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We are looking for a commercially available parallel processing
system hardware and software in the region of Oz$200,000 for
applications involving neural nets. This rules out  VLIW and 
systolic arrays and makes n-cubes unattractive. Something like
a farm architecture is what we are after. We would prefer a system
that is expandable as the money rolls in and with some scope for
software and hardware configuration switching. 

Does anyone know of machines coming within cooee of this? Please
reply to 

mike@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
or fax to Dr.M.D.Alder at (09) 380 1028  [Australia]
or mike@madvax.maths.uwa.oz.au

Early replies appreciated and acknowledged.