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From: grunwald@uiucdcsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: supercomputer consortia status
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Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 16:01:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grunwald    Dec 30 15:01:00 1984

In regards to the super-computing rumour and UIUC.

UIUC is definitly getting funding for a Cray-2 or X-MP (not sure which) which
will be managed by Larry Smarr from the Physics department here. They are also
acquiring about 150 (rumoured) Sun workstations for front/back-ending to the
Cray & for data display, etc.
	Someone told me that the person who runs Cray now is a UIUC alumni,
so we're going to get a deal similar to the deal that Seymor Cray gave to
U of Minn.

Additionally, two new labs are in the process of being set up, also with NSF
funding (from my info). The Center for Scientific and Engineering Super
Computing (CSESC) and another lab whose name I've forgotten.
	CSESC will continue the work of Kuck et al on the Paraphrase system
for concurrency explotation in programs & work into general concurrency &
parallel systems.
	The other lab is going to design & build the Cedar architecture
machine using processors & a shuffle-exchange network between them and
heirarchical memories.

	This two labs are public knowledge, and hiring has been going on for
some time (see IEEE Computer magizine, back pages). The Cray grant has been
written up in our local newspaper. The Sun stuff is rumour, although it was
offered as the reason why Bill Joy made a stop out here last spring.

	Purdue already has a Cyber 205. From my understanding, they need
extra NSF money to maintain the machine, not to buy new ones.

dirk grunwald
university of illinois, urbana-champaign
grunwald@uiuc.arpa
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