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From: cmt@myrias.com (Chris Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MYRIAS - yet again
Message-ID: <629968724.4593@myrias.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 07:18:43 GMT
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Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
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In article <13683@reed.UUCP> mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
>Ok, I hate to harp on it, ... Does anyone have *any* details of the
>architecture that they can talk about?  Is Myrias simply a /dev/null ...
>or are there real machines with a real architecture that are being
>used for something real?

Yes, we are real, and so is our system.  Architectural info to follow
in subsequent postings.

We have 8 systems installed:
   - Myrias, Edmonton, Canada: 768 PE's (varies)
   - Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Canada: 64 PE's
   - Department of Defense, Maryland, USA: 128 PE's
   - Department of National Defense, Ottawa, Canada: 128 PE's
   - University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada: 64 PE's
   - Colorado Center for Applied Parallel Processing, Boulder, USA: 64 PE's
   - Air Force Weapons Lab, Albuquerque, USA: 64 PE's

The seven offsite systems have been shipped since April 1989.

It's not really for me to say, but my impression of what is done with
these systems is that it is "real".  Perhaps some of our users will
comment.  Application areas I know of include seismic, chemistry,
biochemistry, physics, ray tracing, marine biology, and others.
-- 
Chris Thomson, Myrias Research Corporation   uunet!myrias!cmt or cmt@myrias.com
900 10611 98 Ave, Edmonton Alberta, Canada   Tel 403-428-1616  Fax 403-421-8979