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From: rmw6x@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (Robert M. Wise)
Newsgroups: comp.hypercube
Subject: Ncube-10: not always 2^10
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Date: 19 Feb 88 13:16:13 GMT
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Since I've gotten a couple pieces of mail about this, I thought I
would clear up what might be a general misconception.

I am the system administrator for an Ncube-10 at UVA.  We have a
64-node Ncube-10.  The Ncube-10 has a max capacity of 1024 nodes.
(Actually more than that, but I'm pretty sure no one has done that.
Apparently you can connect several Ncube-10's across the backplane.)
Just because someone has an Ncube-10 does not mean that it has all of
its processor board slots filled. I wish! :-)

Does anyone have or know of accounting software for the Ncube-10?
Something that would provide that kind of accounting you would need to
sell machine time.  (connect, i/o, cpu, that kind of thing).

My other problem is mail.  The ncube-10 mail software doesnt support
the standard internet headers (or whatever those are).  Has anyone
sucessfully ported a standard Unix mailer to the Ncube-10?

The graphics subsystem that we have for the machine is a real pain to
program.  There is some evidence that we may have been given the wrong
software upgrade by Ncube. Anyone have a graphics subsystem that is
working just fine? (Programming it, that is: our demos run fine.)
The graphics are really nice, otherwise.

I think I posted the wrong arpa net address.  I had posted:

rmw6x@hudson.virginia.acc.edu

it is in fact:

rmw6x@hudson.acc.virginia.edu

Sorry about the wrong address and the load on bitnet! 

-Bob Wise