MasPar Computer Corp, the new Sunnyvale, California company with the massively-parallel MP-1 computer (CI No 1,342) has joined DEC’s Data-Parallel Research Initiative, introduced in May 1989 to encourage research into new and improved data-parallel computing applications and distributed supercomputing. Under the initiative, which also includes Thinking Machines Corp, members make their machines available at discounted prices to universities and qualified research institutions in the US and Europe to conduct research that will create or optimise massively parallel applications; MasPar’s MP-1 integrates DEC’s VAXstation 3520 Ultrix workstation as part of the system; the system is available through the initiative at from less than $100,000.
