The Inmos International Plc Transputer has found favour with the CGEE-Alsthom nuclear power subsidiary of CGE SA, which has developed an industrial control system based on Transputers, and the first application will be in running a nuclear power station. Systems are also set for two other industrial sites. The Transputer was chosen for its raw processing power and the inter Transputer links, and the first of the Controbloc P20 systems includes 400 Transputers with a high degree of redundancy, both functional – alternative subsystems to handle the same task, and processor – pairs of Transputers within subsystems; the system is written in C.
