Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Subject: Re: Massively Parallel "Pizza Box"???
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 06:31:31 GMT
Message-ID: <40hhs3$246@shell2.best.com>

In article <4026po$rgh@nova.umuc.edu>,
4011 Student 18 <cm325a18@nova.umuc.edu> wrote:
>
>I believe I know what you are referring to-
>
>_Information Week_, 6/5/95, p. 100: "Massive Desktop Power."
>
>This article describes the Desktop RealTime Engine rolled out on May 15 by 
>Integrated Computing Engines of Cambridge, Mass., a MIT spinoff company.
>
>It is a "briefcase-sized machine" containing 32 33-MHz or 64 40-MHz Super 
>Harvard Architecture Computer ("Sharc") chips (Analog Devices ADSP-21060). 
>The two versions are $50K and $99.5K respectively. The article quotes a cost
>of $11.60/Mflop. The device communicates at 80 Mbps with an EISA PC front end

This price is ridiculous.  O(1) KFLOPS/$ is the best you can do, I'm sorry
that your benchmarks lead you astray, perhaps memory bandwidth wasn't 
considered?  Try $300/Mflop for an excellent goal.  Prove me wrong!


>running Digital Unix, WinNT, or OS/2. It is programmable in C using "standard
>compilers and debuggers." For an additional $10K the company provides four
>tools that ease programming. On-site training is provided for $2K/week. It is 
>suggested that a developer without || programming experience may take 
>a couple of months to get up to speed.
>
>AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., has ordered one of the these systems, 
>which are scheduled to ship Sept. 1.

Hmm... Profits?

>
>
>Frankly, I've been hoping someone would mention this machine. If you have 
>any additional information or any opinions about this company or its 
>system's performance and cost, please e-mail me! If I missed previous 
>discussion of this topic, please summerize.
>
>Thank you,
>Mark DeBooth
>debooth@geis.geis.com


Russell Carter
Geli Engineering
Distributed Pentium Clusters
http://www.geli.com

