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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Hmm!  ( CM info / also req. dat
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Date: 21 Nov 88 00:16:34 GMT
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In article <3494@hubcap.UUCP> you write:
>If you want some technical info or whatever on our (MIMD parallel)
>systems just shout and I'll pull some stuff together and get it to
>you. We build general-purpose Unix based systems with 2..20 processors.
>
>Right now that's 40MIPs (NS32332), around the first of the year around
>150MIPs (NS32532) and we have a DARPA contract to deliver a 1000MIPS

Let me make a testimonial for Encore.  The CS department at the U of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign has 5 of them.  Needless to say, we like
them.  The biggest one is only a 10 processor machine, and we use it
mostly for general-purpose Unix time-sharing, but it does a fantastic
job of that.  We use the smaller machines for software development,
but plan to upgrade them to a big mulitprocessor when we get our
operating system developed.  Anybody who is interested in getting
a shared memory multiprocessor should at least look at Encore.

Ralph Johnson