Talk:Goodyear MPP

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ILLIAC IV[edit]

I think it might be worthwhile to discuss the ILLIAC IV here... Maury 02:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What do you want to discuss about the IV? They are quite different architectures. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 00:55, 14 December 2007 (UTC) --enm[reply]

Really? Both were parallel designs with limited bit width installed and used by NASA. Surely that commonality alone seems worthy of a mention? Maury (talk) 20:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Computing different NASA Centers and vastly different user communities. The ILLIAC IV wasn't composed of bit-serial machines like the MPP. The IV had floating point units, the MPP didn't. The MPP was OK for discrete image processing. The IV sampled image processing but that community showed no further interest. The IV was ECL; the MPP was CMOS. I am sitting across the street from the wing of the building which housed the IV (but was not a user). The MPP had 1 programming language (a parallel Pascal), the IV had 1 language used of 3 (1 ALGOL-like, 1 home grown Fortran-like (CFD), and one home grown like neither of the aforementioned). A couple of books exist on the IV which touted it. The MPP's literature was fairly obscure even when it was replaced by Maspars. The architecture which is closer to the MPP than any other might be the ICL DAP. The MPP had to have a redundancy which the ILLIAC IV never even approached since only 1 quadrant was completed. West Coast (IV, but from the Mid-West (IL)); East Coast (MPP, also from another part of the Mid-West (OH)). 143.232.210.45 (talk) 23:09, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]