[SunRescue] Maspar & DEC

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

wow! $66.00 for a device with up to 16K processors. who'd have 
thunk it. any idea what one of these baby's cost new?

At 01:15 PM 12/2/00, you wrote:
>on 12/2/2000 12:20 PM, mike dombrowski at legodude at home.net wrote:
>
> > Hello, I recently won a Maspar MP-1 Supercomputer on Ebay and I 
> need a
> > DECStation 5000 to host it. I'm looking for one with at least 
> 64mb of
> > ram and a 1gb disk. A FDDI card would be nice but I can get 
> those
> > elsewhere. I'd also need a version of Ultrix to run on the Dec. 
> I don't
> > need a graphics card, monitor, keyboard or mouse, just the box.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
>
>
>Mike that sounds very cool!  How many processors does your MP-1 
>have?
>
>Specs I read about on 16384 procs is 26000MIPS and 580Mflops 
>double
>precision.  Pretty zippy even by today's standards.
>
>Cordially
>
>Patrick
>
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