Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,comp.parallel.pvm
From: sssfagg@reading.ac.uk (Graham Fagg)
Subject: Re: India's Supercomputer Put On Sale
Organization: University of Reading
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 00:05:51 GMT
Message-ID: <sssfagg.786067551@reading>

prem@ux5.lbl.gov (Prem!) writes:

>> 
>> Hey! No need to start getting personal when the person made an OBVIOUS joke.
>> Mattias Hembruch

>    Since Amitabh used the phrase "Supercomputers manufactured at your
>    country" while addressing a Briton, it is obvious Amitabh was also
>    joking.

>    Prem!
>    ======================================================
>    ====    All the parts falling off this car are    ====
>    ====    of the finest British craftsmanship.      ====
>    ======================================================

Well in the early 1980's ICL/AMT was making a world leading SIMD machine called
the DAP. (The one here in Reading still out performs our Sun SparcCentre2000
with its 8 upgraded sparc chips on neural network applications). The custom
PE (processing element) Chips each holding 64 PE's were british as far as I
know.

Currently Meiko Ltd is still british, altough some of its manufactoring is
currently state side so we can sell machines (and large ones) to places like
LLNL... (the original systems also had transputers in them one of the few
non-american systems around). 

So yes it may have been a joke, but looking at KSR, and now Thinking Machines,
don't you think it it can happen to anyone no matter which side of the 'pond'
they are on??

Time to kill this thread and get back to parallel computing.

Anybody else glad that Oakridge left the hi_speed entry in the pvmhostinfo
structure? Is anybody else using it to do their task placements?
(and are there any other changes anybody has noticed in 3.3.5?)


Graham.
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