Loan Pool equipment arrived soon after the Transputer Initiative started.
Allocations to users started in May 1987 and the early successful applicants received their allotted equipment
by the middle of June. By July, 23 loans had been made. By October, the original set of equipment had all been loaned
to 55 different applicants.
The pool of hardware and software available for use by
members of the UK academic community was
significantly upgraded in April 1990 following a £250k allocation by the
Engineering Board.
Loans were made initially for a period of four months
with an extension of up to eight months thereafter (one year
total) being possible.
PC Plug-in boards
PC can be provided
Inmos Ltd
IMSB004 Single Transputer Board (T414-15 or T800-17)
IMS B008 10-TRAM -site Motherboard for PC
IMSB404 TRAM with T800 + 2MB DRAM Size 2
Occam Toolset and Compilers:
IMSD700-D Transputer Development System (TDS)
IMSD705-B Transputer Development Toolset (TDT)
IMSD511-1 C Compiler
IMSD513-1 Fortran Compiler
Transtech Devices Ltd
TSB04-2 Single Transputer Board (T414-20)
TSB07-2 Graphics Board
TSB44-4 Multi-Transputer (4*T414-20) PC Board
TSB48-4 Multi-Transputer Board (4*T800-20) PC Board
TMB08 10-TRAM-site Motherboard
TTM4-8 TRAM with T800 + 1MB DRAM Size 4
TTG-F Frame-Grabber TRAM
TTG1 Graphics TRAM (512 * 512 pixels) size 2
TTG3 Graphics TRAM (1280*1024 pixel) size 4
TTM7-8F TRAM (T800-20 + 1MB DRAM)
TTM11 SCSI/ i/f TRAM with TBIOS s/w
TTM14 D-A Converter - T212, 12-bit, Size 2
3L Ltd
Parallel C Compiler
Parallel Fortran Compiler
Parallel Pascal Compiler
Tbug
Distributed Software Ltd
Helios/PC
X-Windows for Helios
Helios Debugger
Sun-based Systems
Sun itself not provided
Transtech Devices Ltd
Multicomputing System (4 Processors, each with 2MB with Fortran and C)
Meiko Ltd
MK200 (4 processors each with 2 MB) plus CSTOOLS
Inmos Ltd
IMSD505 Occam toolset (Inmos) for Sun
IMSD511-C C Compiler
IMSD513-1 Fortran Compiler
The Transputer Initiative lasted until 31 March 1992. The total cost was £4M
with £3M from SERC and DTI and £1M from industry.
Typical Transputer board with space for four transputers
