Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!grunwald From: grunwald@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: supercomputer consortia status Message-ID: <13900009@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 16:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.13900009 Posted: Sun Dec 30 16:01:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 01:00:31 EST References: <731@noscvax.UUCP> Lines: 34 Nf-ID: #R:noscvax:-73100:uiucdcsb:13900009:000:1559 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 grunwald%uiuc@csnet-relay {pur-ee, ihnp4}! uiucdcs ! grunwald