Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!garcon!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: superscalar Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 89 14:52:17 GMT References: <26356@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <14FU029t326G01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <26434@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <26641@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 16 In-reply-to: brooks@vette.llnl.gov's message of 9 Jun 89 06:26:14 GMT In article <26641@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: >Intel has plans to produce a successor the iPSC/2 based on the the i860, and >finally using a reasonable I/O architecture. They plan to produce 2048-node >systems for DARPA. I have no comment on this rumor. -- I got this from Federal Computer Week, April 10, 1989, ``Intel Lands DARPA Super Award''. Darpa gives $7.6M to Intel, Intel plows in $20M. 2048 i860 processors running at 60 to 80 Mhz., giving a machine ``50 to 100 times faster than YMP.'' Many quotes from Rattner. The 3 year project is called Touchstone. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)