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- From: ian@MasPar.COM (Ian L. Kaplan)
- Subject: MP-2 Update Press Release
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160223.8143@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: MasPar Computer Corp.
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:30:51 GMT
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- This does not have too much marketing flack and I thought people
- might be interested.
-
- Ian Kaplan
- MasPar Compiler Group
- ian@maspar.com
-
- MASPAR COMPUTER CORPORATION
- 749 North Mary Avenue
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- Scott Humphrey (408) 736-3300 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- MasPar Ships 13 MP-2 Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)
- Systems
-
- Sunnyvale, Calif., January 25, 1993 - MasPar Computer Corporation
- announced today that it shipped thirteen MP-2 massively parallel
- computer systems during 1992, in what company officials described
- as a faster-than-projected start-up for the MP-2, which was
- introduced on October 6, 1992.
- "MasPar announced and delivered volume shipments of the MP-2
- within the same quarter, including three of our largest 16,384
- processor systems," said Jeff Kalb, MasPar President and CEO.
- "This is particularly significant in the high-performance
- computing segment, which historically has preannounced its
- products by as much as one year."
- The thirteen systems shipped had an aggregate performance of
- over 44 GFLOPS of compute power and were comprised of more than
- 140,000 32-bit processors. "In one quarter, we roughly doubled
- the compute power in the hands of our customers," said Kalb.
- The MP-2 delivers up to five times the performance of the
- MP-1, yet retains binary compatibility, a unique attribute in the
- rapidly moving and research-oriented MPP market. The MP-2 is
- priced from $260,000 to $1.6 million, depending on system
- configuration.
- MasPar customers who purchased MP-2 systems include the Ames
- Lab at Iowa State University, the MP-2 beta site; The Institute
- for Genomic Research; University of California, Irvine; and the
- University of Tennessee.
- "The MP-2 delivers an average of four times the performance
- of a comparably-configured MP-1 on our applications and was up and
- running the day it arrived at our facility," said Dr. John
- Gustafson, Director of the Ames Lab at Iowa State University, the
- MasPar MP-2 beta site. "The MP-2 performs as advertised."
- Dr. Petter Bjorstad, Professor of Computer Science at the
- University of Bergen, Norway, purchased a 16,384 processor DECmpp
- 12000Sx upgrade through Digital Equipment Corporation.
- "The upgrade was carried out in a matter of hours, and our
- software moved onto the new system without change," said Bjorstad.
- "We have experienced a four-fold improvement in application
- performance; although equally important at our site was the
- factor of four increase in memory size. We expect the system to
- deliver supercomputer performance across a wide range of
- applications."
- MasPar Computer Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale,
- California is a leader in the emerging market for massively
- parallel processing, a new approach to high performance computing
- using thousands of processors working in unison. MasPar has
- shipped over 140 revenue systems and 700,000 processors since
- introduction in January 1990. MasPar products are used extensively
- in industry and academia for applications ranging from simulations
- of automotive crashes to cancer and AIDS research.
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