Touchstone Delta
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1990
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Dimensions
- overall: 61 1/2 in x 21 1/4 in x 36 1/4 in
- Manufacturer
- Intel Corporation
- Credit Line
- Gift of Intel Supercomputing
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Location
- United States
- Keywords
- i860 (computer); massive parallelism; Intel Corporation
- Object ID
- X1643.99A-C
- Speed
- 30 GFLOPS
- Memory Size
- 8.2G
- Memory Width
- 32-bit
- Cost
- $10,800,000
This is a section of the only Touchstone Delta ever built, using Intel's commercially unsuccessful 80860 32-bit RISC chips. Funded by the U.S. government, it was intended to give university researchers access to a compact supercomputer. CalTech used it for seven years.
