The Jim Austin Computer Collection
Meiko
Computing Surface CS1
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This is a classic British supercomputer. It was made up of may be 68 Inmos Transputers and 6 Intel i860 processors. This model has a Sun Spark front end processor. This came from a company that used to service the machines. There is no documentation - thus its unclear what it consists of. It dates about 1989. The use hours is 56000, i.e. 6.39 years! It has serial number 231. I am now told that the machine ias a collectoon of cards from other machines.
More information can be found at: http://www.new-npac.org/projects/cdroms/cewes-1999-06-vol1/nhse/hpccsurvey/orgs/meiko/meiko.html (local copy here).
The machine has the following cards:
| Card Number | Number | type |
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| Top Rack | ||
| MK 041 | 1 | possibly a link card |
| MK 009 | 2 | T414 compute (integer) |
| MK 050 | 1 | T800 host card |
| MK 060 | 10 | T800D x 4 Card |
Bottom rack |
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| MK 014 | 1 | possibly a link card |
| MK 073 | 3 | 2 x i860 card |
| MK 060 | 7 | T800D x 4 card |
| MK 015 | 4 | graphics cards |
| MK 083 | 1 | Sun Spark processor card |
The processor rack.
the back of the machine.
Close up of the interface.