Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.parallel
From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@neu.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: What is Project 'Dash' ?
Organization: The Institute for Impure Science
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:25:12 GMT
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Reinhard Kirchner <kirchner@irz1.informatik.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>I am seeking more info on a project named 'Dash'. It is done by some
>university in USA, together with Silicon Graphics.
>
>As far as I know it is a parallel computer, based on processor/memory
>modules connected by some kind of routing network, and realising
>shared memory, ( one address space ). I was told it is in some kind similar
>to the KSR machines.
>
>Are there any papers, technical reports etc. on this available ?
>I will be glad for all kind of references.

The work was done at Stanford University, and is more-or-less as you describe.
There is a Web page with links to several papers at

http://www-flash.stanford.edu/architecture/papers/paperlinks.html

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