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Subject: Re: [9fans] non-PC hardware
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:22:41 -0400
From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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> i should perhaps elaborate:
> 
> sicortex stick 5000+ 64-bit mips cpus (each 1gflop, 972 six-way smp
> compute nodes) onto a single backplane connected in a Kautz topology.
> their whitepapers are quite interesting.
> 
> won an award at SC'06, if i remember correctly.
> 
> On 3/28/07, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Anyone else see this blurb?
>>
>> http://www.sicortex.com/

Cool.  One of my PhD students graduated on Kautz networks (Gerard Smit and
Paul Havinga, "Rattlesnake, a network for real-time multimedia communications",
SIGCOMM, 23(3), July 1992).

	Sape