Transputer specialist Meiko Scientific Ltd of Bristol, has developed its In-Sun family of Transputer-based Computing Surface boards (CI No 1,170) into a family, and added a new set of parallel processing tools to encourage software developers. There are four boards in the series using from four to 16 Transputers, designed to fit into a Sun-3 or Sun-4 workstation. The boards boost performance from 20 to 400 MIPS and from 6 to 150 MFLOPS using multiple boards, according to Meiko. Prices start from UKP8,000 for boards, and from UKP33,000 for a full turnkey system. Meiko’s CS Tools include the first Unix-compatible symbolic debugger for the Transputer and standard sequential language compilers that allow programmers to write portable parallel applications in Fortran and C without recourse to a novel language.
