Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: raw@stardust.sj.unisys.com (Bob Wipfel)
Subject: Re: STREAM announcement and INMOS
Organization: Unisys Open Systems Group, San Jose
Date: 26 May 1994 23:43:12 GMT
Message-ID: <2s3c6g$on8@ctnews2.sj.unisys.com>

In article <2s1mg7$640@louis.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, bl93r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Benoit Lanaspre) writes:
|> >>
|> >>What??! No SGS-Thomson / INMOS! 
|> >>
|> >>Sparc, 29K and 486 listed. But No T9000 ?! 
|> >.....
|> Another ESPRIT project, HARMONY, was exclusively devoted to the
|> porting  of Chorus on the Transputer. It is now available for T800
|> based (or T800/i860) machines and should be available on T9000
|> machines during Q4 1994 (the problem is probably more the availability
|> of the T9000 itself). The best thing to do would be to contact
|> Archipel directly.

HARMONY has produced Chorus ports for the T805 and T425 transputers only,
it has funding for a T9000 port and recent news indicates this is in progress.
However, the stated objectives of HARMONY (i.e: those that ESPRIT accepted
and handed out the money for) are somewhat different to those of STREAM.

It is therefore interesting that INMOS weren't included in STREAM, when,
as you point out, the company is already active in HARMONY. But, on the other
hand, one could argue that any software produced in the context of STREAM
ought to run on the transputer. That is, if it doesn't depend on any Chorus
functionality missing from the transputer port (VM for example).  

Chorus is a cool technology, and it runs on almost every important micro
you can name. We run it on large networks of Pentiums here, where it has been
used to implement a distributed, single system image variant of SVR4 Unix.

--
|--------------------------\---------------------------------------------------|
| Bob Wipfel                \  Ski and Parapente the Wasatch Front             |
|                            \                                                 |
| UNISYS Corporation          \  Internet: raw@unislc.slc.unisys.com           |
| Distributed O/S Group        \  UUCP:    ...!{sun!sequent!ctnews}!unislc!raw |
| Scalable Parallel Processing  \  Phone:  +1 (801) 594 6281                   |
|--------------------------------\---------------------------------------------|

