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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Re: Caltech's Cosmic Cube
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 20:55:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 20:55:39 1985
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> >The problem of effectively using this computing power is non-trivial
> >(ask the folks with Illiac IV). ...
> >        Joel West
> >        CACI, Inc. - Federal 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct La Jolla 92037
> >        jww@bonnie.UUCP (ihnp4!bonnie!jww)
> >        westjw@nosc.ARPA
> Motorola Semiconductor Inc.                Dave Trissel
> Austin, Texas          {ctvax,siesmo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet

Sorry, we gave what's left of the Illiac to DEC's museum, no spare parts.
The disks made nice coffee tables, wish I got one.

I made a saying last Sept.:
	"reinventing the illiac again."
Chuck's Cube is not the illiac, but programming any of these machines is not
a piece of cake.  Intel stopped by today and spoke about their cube
versions the d5, d6, d7 systems. You can write them for info.  Read
the CACM paper for a sample C program. 'Applications' programs are going to
look more like 'systems' programs as we increase parallelism.

So long for now.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
  {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene
  emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA