Comments on: The Mystery of the Massively Parallel Processor http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/the-mystery-of-the-massively-parallel-processor/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/the-mystery-of-the-massively-parallel-processor/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 Doug Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:14:34 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1700#comment-4513 As a computer scientist and an aviation geek, I’m so glad to see this post on a very important computational architecture.

Is there any chance that one of the MasPar machines from Goddard wound up in the NASM archives? I’d love to see a post or two about that machine.

Thanks!

]]> By: Geeked On Goddard http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/the-mystery-of-the-massively-parallel-processor/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 Geeked On Goddard Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:07:50 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1700#comment-2573 What a wonderful little dollop of computing history! I am making some inquiries here at Goddard to see if anybody is still here who worked with the MPP. I would like to write about it on the Geeked On Goddard” science blog. -Dan Pendick

]]> By: Jamey http://blog.nasm.si.edu/history/the-mystery-of-the-massively-parallel-processor/comment-page-1/#comment-2382 Jamey Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:12:54 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=1700#comment-2382 Current CPUs are a hybrid between classic Von Neumann architecture and massively parallel machines like the MPP. However, the graphics cards generally are massively parallel. And Google and such take Sun’s old slogan that “the computer is the network, the network is the computer” and use it to take Massively Parallel to entirely new heights. In fact, much of the difference is one of scale – how capable the sub-units are, and how fast the interconnections are.

Still, the MPP deserves a lot of recognition, and I’m glad to see it’s getting it, no matter where it’s coming from!

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