Mercury Computer Systems used the i860 in their multicomputer. From 2 to 360 compute nodes would reside in a circuit switched fat tree network, with each node having local memory that could be mapped by any other node. Each node in this heterogeneous system could be an i860, a PowerPC, or a group of three SHARC DSPs. Good performance was obtained from the i860 by supplying customers with a library of signal processing functions written in assembly language. The hardware packed up to 360 compute nodes in 9U of rack space, making it suitable for mobile applications such as airborne radar processing.
Mercury Computer Systems used the i860 in their multicomputer From 2 to 360 compute nodes would reside in a circuit switched fat tree network with each node having local memory that could be mapped by any other node Each node in this heterogeneous system could be an i860 a PowerPC or a group of three SHARC DSPs Good performance was obtained from the i860 by supplying customers with a library of signal processing functions written in assembly language The hardware packed up to 360 compute nodes in 9U of rack space making it suitable for mobile applications such as airborne radar processing