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A Look At A Gaggle Of Transputer Boards
Lance Harvie revisits his collection of vintage Transputer boards, including a university-era T400 board and a newly acquired four-processor T425 board. The Transputer was a 1980s UK-designed processor built for task-level parallelism by networking standalone compute nodes — a precursor to modern cluster computing. The four-CPU board is notable for having all inter-processor serial links connected on-PCB, making it a self-contained parallel system, and its chips were manufactured as late as 1999 by ST Microelectronics after the UK government cancelled the project. Lance plans to eventually power up the boards and interface them with a modern Linux machine.
