MPP Possibility (Was: Notice)

From: Bill Sudbrink <bills_at_adrenaline.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 14:03:53 2001

> 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?

The University Of Maryland had something called ZMOB or
Z-MOB in the early 1980s, which (if memory serves) was
256 4MHz Z80s, several Megs of bank-switched memory, etc.
I never got to actually play with it or even see it,
only heard about it. Frank McConnell may know more.
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 14:03:53 BST