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Implementation and use of Level 3 BLAS kernels on a
Transputer T800 ring network.
Such paradigms appear naturally suited for innovation in operating systems,
transputers, intelligent networks, non-von Neumann architectures, systolic arrays, and parallel systems.
One key to the new Unilog TC-40 control system is that it is based on so-called "
transputers," which are billed as high-performance microprocessor systems particularly suited for applications in which a high number of open- and closed-loop tasks must be processed simultaneously.
Developed by the then independent MEL concern, Sceptre uses a family of modules which includes channelized receiver technology (capable of being tweaked to cover the 0.5- to 90-GHz frequency range),
transputers for parallel processing, specialized antenna systems, an 18-MIP pulse train analyzer and a new generation of software, much of it written in Ada.
In the space agency's NNETS (Neural Network Environment
Transputer System) 40
transputers have been linked to attain an extremely high operating speed.
For example, the new "T Series' computersfrom Floating Point Systems, Inc., in Beaverton, Ore., also have a "massively parallel' architecture, but they compute with as many as 16,384 linked "
transputers,' sophisticated, high-speed microprocessors manufactured by a British company.
Second-generation vision systems by our group (around 1990 to 1997) were implemented in the programming language c on "
transputers" (microprocessors with four parallel links to neighborning ones in a network).
These measurements were taken on a Parsytec board composed of
transputers (T800) with one megabyte of memory each, hosted by a Sun.
Sophisticated software was written for the
transputers in the 6210 using the OCCAM |TM~ programming language.
The Computer Science Department has modern, well-equipped laboratory facilities including: SUN SPARC, NeXT, Silicon Graphics 4D, and DEC workstations, a Symbolics LISP machine,
transputers, and an Ethernet Local Area Network.