Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)
Subject: Re: Massively Parallel "Pizza Box" really the ICE box
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: 7 Sep 1995 19:35:09 GMT
Message-ID: <42nhhd$ph8@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <42hnis$7gi@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
Eugene N. Miya <eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>ICE was at SIGGRAPH with a little "demo model."  Read: MODEL.
>
>ICE has not run the NAS parallel benchmarks and its not clear to me
>whether they will.  My guess is that this box is for a signal processing
>market/image processing market than a more general purpose market
>(then you would expect to see Abingdon Cross Image Processing Benchmark
>numbers).

    I noticed that it had a ridiculously small amount of memory on each PE -
256K or maybe 512K. It would appear that it's intended to be used mainly a
SIMD machine, although they claimed that it supported message passing, too.
    Jon
    __@/

