Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!fpst From: jdb@arp.anu.edu.au (John Barlow) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Sparc base torus multiprocessor (we have one ...) Keywords: fujitsu sparc wormhole torus Message-ID: <1991May7.123451.20150@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 6 May 91 23:55:30 GMT References: Sender: news@csc2.anu.edu.au Reply-To: jdb@arp.anu.edu.au (John Barlow) Organization: Automated Reasoning Project, ANU. Lines: 35 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Apparently-To: Originator: jdb@neptune.anu.edu.au G'day from the southern hemisphere. Recently (a week ago) Fujitsu installed an AP-1000 here at the Australian National University. The model we have has 64 SPARC processors, 16 meg of memory each, torus mesh with wormhole routing and a Sun 4/390 front end machine. The machine will be upgraded to 128 processors soon. Originally it was known to me as the "CAP" (Cellular Array Processor), but they changed the name to AP-1000. The local Department of Computer Science is working on software for the machine - programming environments, languages, and porting packages to it. Several groups on campus are trying to get time on it, with a range of applications they want to put on it. I will get somebody from the department to followup to this, if they haven't already done so. BTW, the machine they delivered to us has serial number 1 on it. -- jdb = John Barlow, Parallel Computing Research Facility, Australian National University, I-Block, PO Box 4, Canberra, 2601, Australia. email = jdb@arp.anu.edu.au [International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747] -- =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell