Not stopping at clustering, Compaq Computer Corp is set to use MeshSP parallel hardware and software from privately-held Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Labs spin-out Integrated Computing Engines Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts, to create supercomputer configurations out of its Windows NT on iAPX-86 engines, and has taken an undisclosed stake in Integrated Computing Engines to cement the deal (CI No 3,024). Integrated Computing’s briefcase-size Desktop RealTime Engine uses a MeshSP interconnect to join up to 64 Analog Devices Inc Sharc Super Harvard Architecture Computer signal processors in a system supporting a variety of programming models which can be attached to EISA/PCI Digital Unix and Windows NT hosts.
