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Hi everyone, author here. Just to note that this is just Part 1 of a multi-part series. I’d love to cover some of the real world applications of Transputers in

Hi everyone, author here. Just to note that this is just Part 1 of a multi-part series. I’d love to cover some of the real world applications of Transputers in Part 2 so please share if you think of interest.

rwmj 3y ago
This comment might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159
- klelatti 3y ago
  That’s really interesting- thanks so much.
cpswan 3y ago
My final year project at University was building a real time simulation of the human peripheral hearing system on an array of T800s, written in Occam. The work continued without me as a PhD project. My supervisors published a paper about it in Microprocessors and Microsystems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0141933194900841 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014193... What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro. For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.
sokoloff 3y ago
My internship at Daimler-Benz used Inmos transputers in the vision system and control system for a completely autonomous vehicle project. I've written a few comments about it before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759446 https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/three-decades-ago-mercedes-benz-started-work-on-the-first-autonomous-car https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/three-decades-ago-mercedes...
- GregarianChild 3y ago
  Did you work with Ernst Dickmanns or his students on self-driving cars @ Daimler, they were (arguably) the first?
  - sokoloff 3y ago
    Yes. My direct boss was Andreas Kuehnle. Ernst Dickmanns was my boss's boss (or maybe my boss's boss's boss). I met him during one of our vehicle demonstrations and presented my final intern project review to a panel that included him. He may have also been the higher-up boss that our system threw to the ground during a false-positive emergency braking event as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126
- klelatti 3y ago
  That's great - thanks for sharing!

rwmj 3y ago

This comment might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808159

klelatti 3y ago
That’s really interesting- thanks so much.

cpswan 3y ago

My final year project at University was building a real time simulation of the human peripheral hearing system on an array of T800s, written in Occam. The work continued without me as a PhD project. My supervisors published a paper about it in Microprocessors and Microsystems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0141933194900841 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014193... What I had in mind at the time (once Moore's law reduced the size and power demand) was customisable hearing aids - the sort of thing that can now be done with AirPods Pro. For a certain generation of system engineers it seems like early exposure to parallel programming on Transputers helped them get a leg up in distributed system design, especially once multi core systems came along.

sokoloff 3y ago

My internship at Daimler-Benz used Inmos transputers in the vision system and control system for a completely autonomous vehicle project. I've written a few comments about it before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8950421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759446 https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/three-decades-ago-mercedes-benz-started-work-on-the-first-autonomous-car https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/three-decades-ago-mercedes...

GregarianChild 3y ago
Did you work with Ernst Dickmanns or his students on self-driving cars @ Daimler, they were (arguably) the first?
- sokoloff 3y ago
  Yes. My direct boss was Andreas Kuehnle. Ernst Dickmanns was my boss's boss (or maybe my boss's boss's boss). I met him during one of our vehicle demonstrations and presented my final intern project review to a panel that included him. He may have also been the higher-up boss that our system threw to the ground during a false-positive emergency braking event as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333126
klelatti 3y ago
That's great - thanks for sharing!