The US Naval Research Laboratory is to upgrade and expand its Butterfly parallel processing system in a move that will give it the most powerful Butterfly to date, BBN Advanced Computer Inc reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts: the Navy’s $800,000 upgrade, will increase performance to 320 MIPS and hike its memory to 512Mb, doubling the number of Butterfly nodes to 128; the machine is to be used inter alia to simulate expert systems for Navy battle management, and to simulate communication networks or network configuration optimisation.
THE US NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY TO UPGRADE THE BUTTERFLY SYSTEM
