MPP Possibility (Was: Notice)

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Aug 21 13:27:00 2001

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Adrian Vickers wrote:

> It's still possible to buy new Z80 CPUs (£2.50 in the UK); how many would
> it take to build a pentium-IV class machine? :)
> Cheers!
> Ade.

This leads to one mind-boggling possibility. If one etches custom boards
with eight Z80s each, and pumps all eight each clock, and one takes
several thousand of these boards, wouldn't that be a rather interesting
MPP supercomputer? Would it be more or less money than one made with,
say, IBM POWER4s, or Alphas, or StrongARMs?

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 13:27:00 BST