Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Re: Illiac-IV info
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Date: 23 Jun 1997 18:45:44 GMT
Message-ID: <5omg8o$opu@darkstar.ucsc.edu>

The best place to look is your local university library.
You will undoubtably have to resort to interlibrary loan.
Hord wrote a book about it.  There are quite a few 60s and 70s
IEEE papers (Slotnick, Bourknight, Kuck, and numerous other authors).
Many of the references, but far from all are in the parallelism biblio.
But any decent literature search service will do.

The hard thing is separating the reality from the hype.
I'm posting from the building which housed it.
The control unit and one PE bank (8 PEs) sits in a warehouse not far
from here.  The disk platters are popular as coffee table tops.

I will videotape a talk for Gwen Bell tomorrow, but
you must either communicate with The Computer Museum or
Peter Nurkse at SUN for his tape (he also videos).

It was a big project which was never completed which resulted in a lot
of interesting developements: ECL, ribbon cable, an attempt at optical
storage (never worked), etc. etc.  Oh, yes, and then there was the software.
But it was one of the major reasons for justifying the ARPAnet.

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