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- From: lycmit@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw (Yin-Chih Lin)
- Subject: Could I compete the low-end CM5 with multiple SPARCstations?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.134928.5014@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Clemson University
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:14:01 CST
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- Greetings:
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- We have many Sun's SPARCstations (from 1, 1+, IPC, to 2, 670MP and
- SPARCstation 10 in the near future), and the new-version multi-thread
- OS (SunOS 5.0) will be installed on these computers.
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- I find that the Think Machines Corp.'s latest MPP machine CM-5 is also
- adopted the SPARC processors (22 MIPS per processor) as its nodes.
- According the "Parallel Processing" Oct. 1991 issue, the price of 32-node
- CM5 model will sell at about $1.4 million.
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- I am curious, if I connect 32 SPARCstation 10 model 30 (33MHz, SuperSPARC
- module with 86.1 MIPS - Sun Micro adverted!?) computers (loosely-coupled
- MIMD multicomputers?) either by Ethernet, ISDN or FDDI with the multi-
- thread OS and might use facilities from Linda-like distributed data
- structures. Is it possible for me to obtain the reasonable performance
- when compared with the 32-node TMC CM5 (SIMD machine)?
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- I will be highly appreciated for receiving any comments. Please direct
- your opinion (or abuse) to me by email. so the news bandwidth won't be
- wasted (except this one!).
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- Thanks,
-
- P.S. I would also like to know, is there any one config their SPARCstations
- to a message-passing MIMD multicomputers rather than just merely LAN-
- based networking workstations?
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- email: lycmit@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw Institute (ITRI)
- phone: 886-35-917331
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