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While Kalb was the Vice-President of DEC 's VLSI chip-building division, some researchers in that division were building a supercomputer based on the Goodyear MPP (massively parallel processor) supercomputer. The DEC researchers enhanced the architecture by:
  • making the processor elements to be 4-bit instead of 1-bit

  • increasing the connectivity of each processor element to 8 neighbors from 4.

  • adding a global interconnect for all of the processing elements, which was a triple-redundant switch which was easier to implement than a full Crossbar Switch .

  • After Digital decided not to productize the research project, Kalb decided to start a company to sell this minisupercomputer. In 1990, the first generation product MP-1 was delivered. In 1992, the follow-on MP-2 was shipped. The company shipped a total of 200 systems.


By 1996, the company had halted hardware development and transformed itself into a Data Mining software company named Neovista Software . In 1999, Neovista was acquired by Accrue Software .


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