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This machine was the first parallel computer of this type installed in Europe. The Intel iPSC/2 used a Unix system as frontend (System Resource Manager). This SRM did manage the parallel system and did connect to the departemental network. The table below only contains information about the parallel machine.
| processor | Intel 80386/80387 (16MHz) |
| number of processors | 16 |
| intern real memory | 64 Mbyte: 4 Mbyte per processor |
| topology | 4-dimensional hypercube |
| interconnection | Direct Connect Module (DCM) with 8 full-duplex serial channels (2.8Mbyte/s) per processor. Chaneel 0 to 6 are used to connect to the neighbor processors. |
| OS | Node Executive (NX/2), a restricted OS with support for multitasking and communication. |
| date of purchase | 1987 |
| used until | 1993 |
| Price | 7.826.774 BEF |
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