Matsushita Electric Industrial Co is claiming 2.6 GFLOPS peak performance for the experimental parallel processor it has been developing in collaboration with Kyoto University, and has also come up with a name for the thing – Adena, which stands for Alternating Direction Edition Nexus Array – that presumably sounds better in Japanese: the machine has 256 processing elements and includes a workstation as the front end; Matsushita has been playing about with Inmos International Plc Transputers in parallel processing applications, but claims that the node processors of the Adena are built around a newly-developed 440,000 transistor circuit.
MATSUSHITA HAS PARALLEL PROCESSOR, ADENA
