Pentium for Non-PC (Was Statement & apology (was Re: 10 year whine fest)

[Jules Richardson]

Ken Seefried wrote:
> The ASCI Red supercomputer built by Intel used PPros; see 
> http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aries/course/notes/ascii_red.pdf.  I 
> think the compute nodes were pretty off-the-shelf SMP PPro designs, so 
> some might consider it off-topic.
> 

Bit more info for the PDF-impaired:

http://www.pact.sscc.ru/hardware/computer/#IntelASCIRed

(plus two of the three 'see also' links still seem to work!)

cheers

J.