From: Alec Cawley <alec@cawley.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: building a parallel computer?
Date: 25 Aug 1998 20:55:54 GMT
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In article <6rkfad$q2v$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu>, Bora Ertung
<boraq@worldnet.att.net> writes
>Bart M. wrote in message <6r5uln$hvm$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu>...
>>In article <6qir7b$res$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu>, Bora Ertung
><boraq@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>|> Is there any source or book regarding construction of a parallel
>>|> computer using one of the known CPUs today? Well, too much theory
>>|> hurts, need to practice a little ;).
>>
>>There is the beowulf project.  They build parallel computers with common
>>cpu's and they use Linux as OS.
>
>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?

Two companies, Transtech and Parsytec, have commercial offerings in this
area - daughter boards with alpha and power PC processors connected by
inmos links - though both may be obsolete. There are also commercial
systems based on the TMS320 and Analog Devices Sharc processors. There
should be some literature behind them, if only manufacturers white
papers.

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Alec Cawley

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