Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: andyr@teal.csn.org (Andy Rabagliati)
Subject: Re: [Q] PowerPC chip & Transputer Parsytec
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 20:01:43 GMT
Message-ID: <Cy1Gyv.13K@csn.org>

[ reposted - newsfeed problems. My apologies ]

In article <ko-151094121402@komac>, Ko Stoel <ko@komac.knoware.nl> wrote:
>What's the news;

>From their brochure, skipping the fluff ..

Features

Software, hardware and plug compatible to Inmos TRAM's (size 4)

Programmed using Inmos C Toolset and Parix

Power PC6O1 80 MHz, 160 MIPS / 80 MFLOPS peak performance

IMS T425 communication processor
     
8..2 MByte 64 bit wide DRAM (2 SIMMS)

Description

The PowerTRAM may be combined in systems with the many I/O and
processor TRAM's already available from other manufacturers. The
PowerTRAM 601/80 can be plugged on all TRAM motherboards with at least a
size 4 slot. For instance, an IMS B008 motherboard for PC or an IMS B014
(or IMS BOl8) motherboard for VMEbus systems accepts two PowerTRAM
modules and form therefore a small parallel processing system.
Motherboards for many other systems like lSA96 bus based PC's designed
for industrial applications are also available.

0  Power PCTM 601 computing processor 160 MIPS / 8OMFIops (64 bit IEEE
   peak performance at 80 MHz

0  IMS T425, 25 MHz communication processor, 4 serial links with 20
   MBit/s transfer rate each
 
0  Shared memory fully accessible from both processors

0  Cache coherency in hardware

0  Memory bandwidth: greater than 100 MBytes from Power PCTM, 16
   MByte/s from T425 to shared memory

0  Local memory for communication processor

0  Synchronization with interrupt facilities from T425 to Power PCTM
   and vice versa

0  Upgradable shared memorv consisting of 2 SIMMs (32- or 36-bit / 60ns)

   Software

   Two widely used programming environments for transputer systems,
   Inmos Toolset and Parsytec's ParixTM, are also available for the
   Power TRAMs. Therefore all existing application software can be
   ported to the more powerful Power TRAM simply by recompilation. The
   typical speedup (compared to T805/30 MHZ) is about 15.

0  PowerTools is an extension to the Inmos C Toolset and enables a
   uniform programming environment even for heterogeneous systems
   (PowerTRAM~s and other TRAM's)

0  Parsytec's Parix (Parallel Extension to Unix) programming
   environment was designed for massively parallel computers (MPP) like
   Parsytec GC. It provides a UNIX like programming interface and an
   abstract description of the communication structure (virtual
   topology)


I have a high quality JPEG (119K) of the TRAM from the brochure, which I
could mail to interested parties. (Gotta get that WWW page).


Contact Germany +49.241.16600-0         or USA  +1.708.293.9500
Fax:-           +49.241.16600-50        or Fax  +1.708.293.9525

Disclaimer :- I have no business connections with Parsytec.
Disclaimer :- I have not even used the system.
Disclaimer :- Any inaccuracies are due to poor OCR.

Cheers,    Andy.

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