From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 12:16:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09071 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 12:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09066 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 12:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id PAA07724; Thu, 15 May 1997 15:15:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:15:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: Terry Lambert cc: Nate Williams , terry@lambert.org, rcarter@consys.com, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, fenyo@email.enst.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD In-Reply-To: <199705151828.LAA15397@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk urm, as far as i know TMC is quite dead. the CM-5 was the last machine they built. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > The difference between "could" and "does" is the > > > > reason for the failure of (nearly) every business unit that sold > > > > highly parallel/cluster systems. > > > > > > Except Goodyear. And Thinking Machines Corp. And Cray Computing. > > > And Cray Research. And Fujitsu. And... > > > > Hmm, how many of these are still in business selling highly parallel > > systems? Sounds like failure to me... > > Well, Goodyear was a one-off 65536 processor machine for NASA to > do fluidic modelling of laminar air flow over shuttle parts, so it > can't count as having failed. > > Let's see: TMC is still going. Cray Computing is still going. I > don't know about Cray Research now that Seymore is dead. Fujitsu > is still going. > > > Oh yeah: DEC and Sun also did (and still do) cluster computing. > > > What kind of machine is Deep Blue? 8-). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >