[9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3?

[9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3?

[Roswell Grey]

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Hello! I was doing some reading about old parallel computers, when I came
across Wikipedia's article on this beast:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE

In short, it used hundreds of specially-designed microprocessors to do some
awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, apparently, the
NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Transit" which was said
to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone had the right idea! Now I
know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic software interest, would
anyone have more information on transit? I think it'd be really cool to see
how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi networks, custom processors,
custom intranetworks right down to the board) I am aware that it might be
proprietary and closed source, let alone difficult to obtain the source if
it even exists anywhere, but there's got to be documentation floating
around out there... Thanks guys!

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3?

[Shane Morris]

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Simply wow.

One of the links in the Wikipedia page "See also" is the iNMOS Transputer -
before I got back into the Plan, I looked up what become of iNMOS. See
http://www.xmos.com/ and just for the heck of it, I have one of these, all
of AU$17 (plus Element14s dodgy postage fees of AU$13, so something that is
meant to be cheap becomes a rip - thanks guys...!):
http://www.xmos.com/startkit. The StartKit will talk SPI to a RaspberryPi
just fine and dandy. Or even an Edison if you really want to stretch the
friendship. As you said, this stuff screams "Plan 9 me!" So, uh, I will, I
guess.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Roswell Grey <orangecalx01@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello! I was doing some reading about old parallel computers, when I came
> across Wikipedia's article on this beast:
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCUBE
>
> In short, it used hundreds of specially-designed microprocessors to do
> some awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, apparently,
> the NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Transit" which was
> said to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone had the right idea! Now
> I know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic software interest, would
> anyone have more information on transit? I think it'd be really cool to see
> how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi networks, custom processors,
> custom intranetworks right down to the board) I am aware that it might be
> proprietary and closed source, let alone difficult to obtain the source if
> it even exists anywhere, but there's got to be documentation floating
> around out there... Thanks guys!
>

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