10 Facts About Meiko Scientific

In 1985, when Inmos management suggested the release of the transputer be delayed, Miles Chesney, David Alden, Eric Barton, Roy Bottomley, James Cownie, and Gerry Talbot resigned and formed Meiko Scientific to start work on massively parallel machines based on the processor.

Meiko Scientific Computing Surface was a massively parallel supercomputer.

Later, Meiko Scientific introduced Meiko Scientific Multiple Virtual Computing Surfaces, a multi-user resource management system let the processors of a Computing Surface be partitioned into several domains of different sizes.

In 1988, Meiko Scientific launched the In-Sun Computing Surface, which repackaged the Computing Surface into VMEbus boards suitable for installation in larger Sun-3 or Sun-4 systems.

Meiko Scientific produced a SPARC processor board, the MK083, which allowed the integration of the SunOS operating system into the Computing Surface architecture, similarly to the In-Sun Computing Surface.

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Meiko Scientific developed its own switch silicon on and European Silicon Systems, ES2 gate array.

Processors in a CS-2 were connected by a Meiko Scientific-designed multi-stage packet-switched fat tree network implemented in custom silicon.

Meiko Scientific had hired Fred Homewood and Moray McLaren both of whom had been instrumental in the design of the T800.

Meiko Scientific was able to turn around the core FPU design in a short time and LSI Logic fabbed a device for the SPARCstation 1.

Meiko Scientific design was eventually fully licensed to Sun which went on to use it in the MicroSPARC family of ASICs for several generations in return for a one-off payment and full Solaris source license.