Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Kevin Cameron <kevin@chronologic.com>
Reply-To: kevin@chronologic.com
Subject: Re: Parallel platform
Organization: Chronologic (a Viewlogic company)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 00:25:53 GMT
Message-ID: <3vbv3h$t4l@kadath.zeitgeist.net>

In article <3tte8h$qda@convex.convex.com>, Jens Brauer <brauer@convex.convex.com> writes:
|> Dear Netter:
|> 
|> Our group plans to procure a distributed-memory parallel
|> computer platform to perform large-scale MD simulations.
|> Initially we may not be able to afford many nodes, but we
|> expect to get more money to buy more nodes in the coming 
|> years. So the ideal system should be expandable. Could
|> someone give us some information what kind system may be
|> a wise choice at current time and in future and where we
|> can get quotation for such system? Thanks in advance.

Personal opinion: just buy Sun multiprocessor sparc stations and try to get
FDDI net between them, and write your code in C/g++ so it's easily ported to 
other hardware later. I tried doing a distributed simulator on transputers 
once - the tools where awful, it's much easier doing it on general purpose 
hardware.

If you don't like that idea try: http://www.parsytec.de/

|> Wenbin Yu
|> Dept. of Material Science and Engineering
|> University of Southern California
|> Los Angeles, CA 90089-0241

Regards,
Kev.
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