From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:22:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: Roswell Grey To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec50fe6cda5d22d05040d9b9e Subject: [9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1751e8a4-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --bcaec50fe6cda5d22d05040d9b9e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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! --bcaec50fe6cda5d22d05040d9b9e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 microproces= sors to do some awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, a= pparently, the NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Trans= it" which was said to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone h= ad the right idea! Now I know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic sof= tware interest, would anyone have more information on transit? I think it&#= 39;d be really cool to see how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi n= etworks, custom processors, custom intranetworks right down to the board) I= am aware that it might be proprietary and closed source, let alone difficu= lt to obtain the source if it even exists anywhere, but there's got to = be documentation floating around out there... Thanks guys!

--bcaec50fe6cda5d22d05040d9b9e-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 01:35:28 +1000 Message-ID: From: Shane Morris To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on an Ncube-3? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17560d76-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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! > --001a11c3c178849fc105040dc8de Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Simply wow.

One of the links in the Wik= ipedia page "See also" is the iNMOS Transputer - before I got bac= k into the Plan, I looked up what become of iNMOS. See=C2=A0http://www.xmos.com/ and just for the heck of it, I h= ave 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...!):= =C2=A0http://www.xmos.com/startkit= . The StartKit will talk SPI to a RaspberryPi just fine and dandy. Or e= ven an Edison if you really want to stretch the friendship. As you said, th= is 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 microproces= sors to do some awesome parallel tasks. This just screams 9, right? Well, a= pparently, the NCUBE-3 was supposed to run a microkernel called "Trans= it" which was said to be based on 9. Isn't that awesome? Someone h= ad the right idea! Now I know 9 ran on blue gene too, but for nostalgic sof= tware interest, would anyone have more information on transit? I think it&#= 39;d be really cool to see how they did it with the ncube hardware (hippi n= etworks, custom processors, custom intranetworks right down to the board) I= am aware that it might be proprietary and closed source, let alone difficu= lt 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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