Sky Computers Inc, Chelmsford, Massachusetts claims 40 MIPS and 80 MFLOPS performance from an application accelerator board for Sun Microsystems workstations and other VME-based systems, which combines the Intel 80860 and 80960 RISC-based microprocessors: the Skybolt applications accelerator provides fast scalar processing, fast pipelined vector procesing, high bandwidth memory architecture and vectorising, optimising compilers; the […]
Sky Computers Inc, Chelmsford, Massachusetts claims 40 MIPS and 80 MFLOPS performance from an application accelerator board for Sun Microsystems workstations and other VME-based systems, which combines the Intel 80860 and 80960 RISC-based microprocessors: the Skybolt applications accelerator provides fast scalar processing, fast pipelined vector procesing, high bandwidth memory architecture and vectorising, optimising compilers; the 80960 is used as an input-output processor to scientific applications; the board costs $12,450, now.
