Parsys Ltd leaped forward to say that it will be offering an upgrade path for its SuperNode supercomputers to mover to the new Inmos T9000 Transputer: any customer now buying a T800-based SuperNode will get a 45% discount on an equivalent T9000 system when it is launched in a year’s time. And the German company Parsytec GmbH says it is already involved in a number of projects that will use the Inmos T9000 Transputer to provide TeraFLOPS performance. The company has started work on an Esprit project to define the operating system and architecture of a large multiple instruction multiple data system based on the T9000; and Parsytec has presented proposals to the European Commission for the construction of the world’s first TeraFLOPS machine by 1993 based on a massively-parallel multiple instruction multiple data design that will use 65,536 of the forthcoming T9000 microprocessors.
