From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: building a parallel computer? Date: 25 Aug 1998 20:55:18 GMT Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <6rv8bm$sis$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu Bora Ertung writes: > What I have been looking for is > the hardware structures used in massively parallel machines using > say alpha microprocessors? What are the design issues and so forth? The design issues of clusters of machines and massively parallel machines are getting closer and closer. For example, the IBM SP-2 is actually a cluster, tied together with a switch which is only as fast as commodity Myrinet gigabit networking technology. -- greg -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel