I spent the summer of 1989 working on an Meiko Computing Surface which was a parallel computer built from T800 Transputers. I learnt Occam and implemented a few

I spent the summer of 1989 working on an Meiko Computing Surface which was a parallel computer built from T800 Transputers. I learnt Occam and implemented a few parallel algorithms on it. As I recall, the code running on the Transputers did not have access to the file system so getting data into and out of the mesh networks was difficult. It appeared at first glance that back propagation might be a good fit on the Transputer but I never did get it running. Instead, I used a Connection Machine CM2 to train my neural networks. However, getting time on the CM2 was hard so I wound up just using a collection of IBM RS6000 workstations that IBM donated to my university.