6 The T9000 Farm

6.1 Development history of the T9000

The pre-production prototypes of the T9000 (gamma D02 versions) capable of running large programs were available in small quantities at the start of 1994. A small Parsys SN9400 system, consisting of six T9000s and one C104 packet routing chip, was installed and successfully run in the CPLEAR experiment in June 1994. In September 1994, four more SN9400 systems were added to the original CPLEAR set-up making a total of thirty T9000 Transputers (see Section 6.4).

During the summer of 1994, components of the GPMIMD machine became available. A subset of the machine comprising 24 pre-production prototypes of the T9000 nodes (gamma D02 versions) was installed, independently of the SN9400 systems, in October of 1994 (see Section 6.5).

Application of T9000 to CPLEAR - 09 NOV 95

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