Doug Salot wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, ip500 wrote:
>
> > This sould just make the 10 year rule.... Ran across one over the
> > weekend at a local University auction. Anyone have pointers to Doc's on
> > these cool Hypercubes?
>
> Damn, I've been looking for one of those :-)
This one had a 4 digit serial number--must have made more than a few!
>
> Whatever docs I have are archived on tape and burried someplace. I played
> around with an iPSC/1 around 1987, so you're OK as far as the 10-year rule
> goes. AFAIK, it was Intel's first attempt at a supercomputer. It was
> based on the Cosmic Cube project at Cal Tech.
>
> It's basically a bunch of 286's in a hypercube topology. Each node had
> something like 512K RAM, and the internode communication wasn't very fast
> -- it might have been ethernet.
Ethernet it is....
>
> I don't recall there being any console as such. You talked to the thing
> through a 286 box running Xenix connected via ethernet, which uploaded
> your parallel app to each of the nodes, started the app, and collected the
> output.
Excellent...Thank You. That explains the Intel 310 that came along with
some other junk.... it has ports on the back marked "cube" and ethernet.
Huge 286 box that I think ran XENIX.
>
> It ran an OS called CrOS, which was basically just a communication
> manager. There was no shell or filesystem or anything like that -- the
> box was intended to be used as an execution engine. Intel provided a
> Unix-hosted simulator (which I think was developed at Cal Tech), so you
> could debug the apps using more or less standard tools before uploading
> your code.
Take a look at Paul Pierce's page:
http://www.piercefuller.com
He said he wrote the O/S for it.
Thanks agin for the info,
Craig
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 20:05:56 BST