Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!homxb!whuts!stekas From: homxb!whuts!stekas@att.att.com Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: parallel numerical algorithms Message-ID: <1829@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 13:00:40 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.UUCP Lines: 10 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Bjorn - AT&T makes a signal processor for the military, called the EMSP, and it is a data flow machine which can deliver up to 600 MFLOPS. The data flow architecture does cost something but the benefits are ease of programming (the machine takes care of resource assignments) and the ability to add more processors without having to modify the software. So there is at least 1 real world data flow machine out there. Jim