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From: pgraham@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Peter Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Meiko 'Computing Surface' products - any good?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 14:14:33 GMT
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Hello! We recently received some promotional literature from Meiko
Scientific Corp. advertising rather significant discounts on their
'Computing Surface' products for educational institutions. We are
considering the acquisition of a small parallel processor system for design
and verification of parallel algorithms.  We figure that we can put together
an 8 processor(1M/processor) Meiko system in a VME based Sun workstation for
about $25K, software included. Can anyone give me the low down on these products
or offer suggestions for other systems which are also in the ~$25K range.
Please send your replies to 'pgraham@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca'. If you are
interested in seeing the results e-mail me to that effect and, given enough
interest, I will summarize and post. Much thanks in advance.

Peter Graham