Re: Ada for Transputers!

Re: Ada for Transputers!

[MILLS,JOHN M.]

In article <C0GuD4.5u@world.std.com> tne@world.std.com (Thomas N Erickson) writ
es:
 >g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes
:
 >
 >>   We have been exploring using transputers for some undergraduate classes. 
 >>Part of our plan was to use Ada to program the transputers, which come at
 >>very reasonable price; however, it appears that the Ada vendors that have
 >>compilers for the transputers charge at a "per node" basis.
 >>  "Per Node" is fine
 >>for a network of various users, but a transputer-based platform is a single
 >>user system (in our case).  Is there a compiler for transputers 
 >>(on a PC) that

If this is typical, I'ld say it just about drops Ada out of the massively-
parallel computing market!  What a bonanza for the compiler vendor: sell 1,000 
CPU licenses for one box!  I'm _clearly_ in the wrong end of the business.

Could you get _one_ vectorizing cross-compiler, and host it in something other
than your transputer?  Most licenses I've seen are predicated on the number
of hosts, not the number of targets.  Which compiler vendor(s) were treating
each target node as a separate CPU for license purposes?

Regards --jmm--

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