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From: MJP@vaxb.roe.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Transputer Efficiency
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In article <54@ubc-cs.UUCP>, Benjamin Lau writes:

>Dear all,
>   We are a bunch of students in Canada working on a transputer project.
>I wonder if anybody has done research on measuring the level of      
>utilization of the channel, the link, and the CPUs of a transputer network? 
 
I remember seeing a demonstration at ERCC of a system called GRAIL which 
ran on a SUN workstation and monitored activity on the Meiko Computing 
Surface.  It mapped the network and gave information on CPU activity, but I 
can't remember what information it provided on channel and link activity.
Does anyone know what stage GRAIL is at now?  I seem to recall that it was 
a Marconi package, and people at Strathclyde were involved.

Not much help, I'm afraid, but it might jog a memory or two...

Cheers,
Magnus Paterson,
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.