[rescue] More bits and pieces
Dave McGuire
mcguire at qyx.com
Wed Jun 11 21:28:14 CDT 2003
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez
wrote:
>> Your mision, and you have no choice but to accept it, is to build a
>> small maspar machine to run some unix like OS (or, optionally, spin
>> your
>> own lisp os) on that equipment. Purchasing of PCBs, and additionally
>> memory is allowed.
>
> MasPar's sucked big time, we have one here and it is sitting there
> pretty.
Sure, but Francisco, man...you say that about EVERY
architecture/machine.
> We do lots of SIMD research over here, which is nice for application
> specific tasks... it is not great however to run an OS on them. In fact
> the MasPar acted more like a co-processor to the frontend machine,
> than a
> general purpose machine.
...as supercomputers SHOULD be.
-Dave
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