TokaMac 68040 Accelerator - Fusion Data Systems 1991:

4 Pages·1991·1.1 MB·English

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There's neverbeen anything like the
Motorola 68040 in a desktop computer Everyboard comeswith a one-yearwarranty. In addi-
before. Itdelivers a full 15Million tion, ifyou're notsatisfiedwith our product, just return it
Instructions PerSecond (MIPS). With a within 30 days fora promptand full refund. With Fusion
built-in math coprocessorand cache Data Systems' products - satisfaction is guaranteed.
memory, itcan handle floating-point
calculations up to ten times faster than the
030that's in manyoftoday's fastest We want to be vour perform
machines. Thafswhy NeXT, Apple, and othermajorvendors
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"Fusion Power for Your Mas"
FUSION
DATA S Y S T E MS
RepresentedbyQuantum Leap Systems
15875 HighlandCt. - Solana Beach, CA 92075 USA
[phone]orFAX(619) 481-3192
AskalsoaboutAcceler88 from Fusion,
NuBusapplication acceleratorbasedon Motorola 88100.
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Acceler88 Features and Benefits
Coprocessor system for Apple HighPerformance-Upto30xMacII(68020/881 -16MHz)performance.
Macintosh* with Motorola 88K
II
SinglePrecision DoublePrecision
by Fusion Data Systems (FDS)
18000
16000 Performance
General Poscription 14000 (whetstones/sec.)
12000 10660
10000
The Acceler88 card is a plug-in coprocessor card for the 8000 - . 6120 6100
Apple Macintosh II series of computers, featuring the fast 46000000 1 IpH 3895
Motorola 88100 RISC microprocessor running at25MHz 2000 * 471 451 1191 734
forblazing performance.
MacH MacH+AcceferSS VAX11/780 VAX8650 BM/3090
Fusionisa state-of-the-artparallel object-oriented operat-
ing system, the realization of a $6 million DARPA-funded LowMaintenance-TheAcceler88plugsintoasingleNuBusslot. Noarmy
ofmaintenancetechniciansrequired. FACT: Maintenenancecostsusually
Experimental SystemsProjectcarriedoutbytheMicroelec- exceed the purchase price of mainframe and minisuper computers.
tronicsandComputerTechnologyCorporation (MCC)and Acceier88comeswitha1-yearwarranty&extendedcoverageisavailable.
FDS ofAustin, Texas.
MoreBangforaBuck-6-1OxmorecosteffectivethanMacII. 2ordersof
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price/performance benefits. This makes the Acceler88
ideal forscientificcomputing,asan engineeringtool,oras ISinglePrecision DoublePrecision
an application acceleratorforOEM'sand systemsintegra-
tors looking fora competitiveedge. EM/3090
$5M
Cost Efficiency
7.79
VAX8650
Parallel Processing S500K I12.20 (whetstones/sec/$)
VAX11/780
InadditiontothesoftwaresupportoftheuniqueFusionparallel S250K
OAcSc,estshe(ADcMcAe)leIr8/fOfaslelxotwrsemmuelltyipflaestboNaurBdusstDoicroecmtm—uMne—imcoartye MacIIS+12AKxaerSS 90.20 511.25 915.75
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systems fortrue desktop ^
*
supercomputingapplica- Time Savings- Nomoremainframecharges. Nomorewaitingfortime
X slots. EvenmakebatchrunsinthebackgroundunderMultiFinderwhileyou
tions. Users notonly re- continuetouseyourMacforothertasks!
ciemipvleemtheentbeednefRiItSsCoCfPaU,fasbtu,titnhteelalilgseonttlhy-e hM«aochII High-level Language Compatibility - Standard C code runs with little
modification. DevelopmenttoolsrununderAppleUnix(A/UX)andunder
abilitytoincreaseperformancebyaddingmoreAcceler8ffs. MacintoshSystem 7.0uponitsrelease.
ObjectOrientedProgramming-C++extensionsbringyouthebenefitsof
Software Standard* theworld'smostpopularOOPlanguage.
Developmenttools run underAppleUNIX, A/UX,combin- Parallel Processing -The Fusion OS and fastNuBusI/Oallowmultiple
ing the benefits of the popular —— Acceier88,stoworktogether. Usersnotonlyreceivethebenefitofafast
i Appl*umx RISCCPU,buttheuniqueabilitytoincreaseapplication performanceby
Macintosh user interface with the ~~i adding moreAcceler88>s(uptofourinasingle MacII).
powerofthe UNIX standard. I T Fast NuBus I/O - The Acceier88uses DirectMemoryAccess (DMA) to
CompilertoolsarebasedonC++,the wainhapoww—) provideupto 37.5MB/second bandwidth, eliminating hostI/O bottle-
necksanaallowingultra-fastvideoresponse.
industrystandardobject-oriented »
—
programming language ere- CC++++TToooollss NetworkCapability-AMacIIwithAcceler88canactasanetworkcom-
ated byAT&T. i—j » | puteserveronEthernetorLocalTdk.
|
Mscintoih08 Ensemble Macintosh Friendly - FDS' over 12 years of experience w. Macintosh
ParallelOS developmentensuresanatural interfacewiththeMacenvironment.
MacintoshandA/UXareregisteredtrademarksofAppleComputer,Inc. NuBusisatrademarkofTexasInstruments.
.
FDS Acceler88
Coprocessor System lor Apple Macintosh w. Motorola 88K
II
Development Tools Specifications ol the AccelerSS Board
Fusion ParallelOperating System- a state-of-the-art CPU: MotorolaMC88100 (25MHz) RISC
parallel object-oriented OS. Fusion handles all com- Microprocessorw. double precision floating
munication,synchronization,andcontrolforanynumber pointunit (IEEE 754) and 16KBytecache.
ofassociateaprocessors,andistransparenttotheuser.
Thisgreatlysimplifieswritingapplicationsthatrun ina Fiveconcurrentpipelinessupportfourfully
parallel processing environment using multiple independentexecution units. Mostinstruc-
tionsexecute inonedockcyde,with upto
Acceler88's, thus allowing the user to concentrate on
five operationsperdockcyde.
the program instead ofthe system.
Memory: 2 to32MBcustomlow-powerDRAM
C++, the industry-standard object-oriented program-
ming languagefromAT&T, is includedwith the Fusion Memory
OS. Tools provided include a C++ compiler, linker, Management: Dual 88200CMMU'sforseparate instruc-
loaderandasymbolicdebuggerintegratedintoApple tion and data busses
UNIX(A/UX). Mathandotherspecialpurposelibraries NuBus I/O: DMAbandwidth upto37.5MB/sec.
arealso included.
CacheI/O: Dataand instruction caches support80MB/
Three principles characterize the Fusion programming
sec. bandwidth
paradigm:
Size: Fits in single NuBusslot.
Fusion-supportedapplicationsareobject-orientedand
architecturally insensitive. Multiple Boards: 4 in II, llx, and llfx,2 in llci and Ilex, 1 in
llsi
• Parallelism isimplicitin anapplication'sdesign, deriv-
ing concurrency from an object-based partitioning of Acceler88: A System for the Future
algorithms,ratherthanfromexplicitcues(suchasdoall,
pardo, send, receive, rendezvous, etc.)
A FDS looks forward to extending the performance of the
• notwoarvkasitlaatbiloentihsraovuagihlatbhleeFaussiaonhoksetrtnoaCprAotvipdreesseenrtvitcheiss Acceler88system in 1991, byoffering a version using the
isaMacintosh runningA/UX. FusionwillrunwithMac successorto theMotorola 88100, the 881 10, with perfor-
System 7.0when itbecomes available in early 1991 mance five times thatofthe 88100.
Each Acceler88board has two custom high-speed expan-
sion connectorswhich allow connection to external multi-
Customer Support
processor servers thatare currentlyunderdevelopment.
FDS and QLS offer a one-year limited warranty on hard- FDS is currently developing an emulator for the 88open
ware and 30 days of free technical support. Extended binarycompatibilitystandard so that88open UNIXappli-
cationscan be run on Acceler88.
warranties for hardware and extended technical support
areavailable.
QLS Part#: AC88-8 (8 MB RAMversion)
FUSION
DAT A SYSTEMS
Quantum Leap Systems San Diego office
15875 Highland Ct. 8050 Camino Huerta
Solana Beach, CA 92075 San Diego, CA92122
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