A three-way project to develop an advanced parallel processor, funded under the UK government Alvey programme has passed a major milestone according to lead industrial collaborator on the project, ICL. The aim of the Graph Reduction In Parallel, GRIP, project is to develop a parallel machine capable of doing 1m graph reductions a second, 10 […]
A three-way project to develop an advanced parallel processor, funded under the UK government Alvey programme has passed a major milestone according to lead industrial collaborator on the project, ICL. The aim of the Graph Reduction In Parallel, GRIP, project is to develop a parallel machine capable of doing 1m graph reductions a second, 10 to 100 times the speed of a supermini. The work is being done at University College, London and the other participant is High Level Hardware Ltd of Oxford, whose Orion Unix mini will be used to front-end the GRIP processor. The design has now been fully simulated, prototype components are working, and the team is on target for assembling the parallel processor by year-end.
