From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Jan 93 14:05:10 GMT From: prism!jm59@gatech.edu (MILLS,JOHN M.) Subject: Re: Ada for Transputers! Message-ID: <79333@hydra.gatech.EDU> List-Id: In article 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-- -- John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/TSDL, Atlanta, GA 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!jm59 Internet: jm59@prism.gatech.edu ... Not so fast -- I'm still thinking.