Touchstone DELTA
date: label: Date made
content: 1991
name: label: maker
content: Intel Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Touchstone DELTA was a massively parallel supercomputer by INTEL that used their 32-bit 80860 RISC chip. It was the research prototype for the Paragon system and was not commercially produced. Its architecture was a distributed Memory MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data), a 16 x 32 mesh of i860 processors with a wormhole routing interconnection network. The Delta system used i860 processors as computational elements in its nodes but, unlike its predecessor, the iPSC/860, the nodes were not arranged in a hypercube topology but in a 2-D grid. It was built for the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium at CalTech, funded by DARPA.
label: Description
content: The machine has a black and silver exterior with smoked glass front door; a bit similar in look to the Thinking Machines. The interior holds multiple hard drives (front) and boards (rear), power units and fans.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Intel Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0173.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0173.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Supercomputer Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 61 3/4 in x 21 5/16 in x 36 7/8 in; 156.845 cm x 54.2036 cm x 93.6625 cm