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Subject: Connection Machine high-multi-parallel clip-on coprocessor

Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Jun 28, 2000 ยท 7 posts
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Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Wed, 28 June 2000 at 3:07 AM ยท edited Sat, 23 November 2024 at 4:48 AM

Attached Link: http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/temp/connmach.txt

For information about this project, follow the attached link.

Albertosaurus ( ) posted Wed, 28 June 2000 at 4:54 PM

I think I'd rather have a baewulf cluster if I need the power...

lmacken ( ) posted Wed, 28 June 2000 at 10:24 PM

The Connection Machine has been around awhile, IIRC the first successful parallel processor. This appears to be the latest iteration.. Scroll down to the bottom: 'colliding processors', some things never change. http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/27/137255.shtml Hope that's correct; the page isn't displaying correctly at the moment; but it's about 4 G4 PPC chips on a PCI card for an Intel motherboard. They got your Beowolf cluster right there. Also, today, a story on connecting 16 cell phones in parallel to get 150kb/sec in a moving vehicle. And a keeper headline: Inventor Building Rocket In Backyard

Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Thu, 29 June 2000 at 2:01 AM

I just looked at http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/27/137255.shtml . Since then news had moved on and the news itens that Imacken mentioned had scrolled off and vanished.

Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Thu, 29 June 2000 at 2:03 AM

What is Beowulf and where is information and WWW addresses about it? (I mean the computer project, not the Anglo-Saxon warrior.)

Albertosaurus ( ) posted Thu, 29 June 2000 at 10:46 AM

Baewolf is a scheme to cluster multiple Linux machines into a supercomputer. There should be links to info on Baewulf from www.kernel.org or www.slashdot.org

Anthony Appleyard ( ) posted Thu, 29 June 2000 at 10:57 AM

That is not the same. The Connection Machine was effectively 65536 = 256*256 = hex10000 processors in parallel, numbered hex0000 to hexFFFF, and each was connected directly to the 16 others that had one bit different in its serial number. If the idea had been continued with, likely by now it would have shrunk from a ton weight to a reasonable size for a clip-on to a desktop. I bet some expletives deleted in some Ministry of Defence requisitioned the patent and suppressed it, or some such secret agency #@$%-ing about in case someone used it to run a missile or the like, and all computer users have lost out from that.

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