Meiko Scientific Ltd. was a British supercomputer company based in Bristol, founded by members of the design team working on the Inmos transputer microprocessor.

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 (Japanese for "well-engineered") to start work on massively parallel machines based on the processor.

The technical team and technology was transferred to a joint venture company named Quadrics Supercomputers World Ltd. (QSW), formed by Alenia Spazio of Italy in mid-1996.

The Sun acted as front-end host system for managing the transputers, running development tools and providing mass storage.

SVCS, or an improved version, called simply VCS was used to manage the transputer resources.

A major drawback of the Computing Surface architecture was poor I/O bandwidth for general data shuffling.

MeikOS was derived from an early version of Minix, extensively modified for the Computing Surface architecture.

MeikOS was intended for use with the Meiko Multiple Virtual Computing Surfaces (M²VCS) resource management software, which partitions the processors of a Computing Surface into domains, manages user access to these domains, and provides inter-domain communication.

MeikOS has diskless and fileserver variants, the former running on the seat processor of an M²VCS domain, providing a command line user interface for a given user; the latter running on processors with attached SCSI hard disks, providing a remote file service (named Surface File System (SFS)) to instances of diskless MeikOS.

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

The T9000 began to suffer massive delays, such that the internal project became the only viable interconnect choice for the CS-2.

Each processing element included an Elan chip, a communications co-processor based on the SPARC architecture, accessed via a Sun MBus cache coherent interface and providing two 50 MB/s bi-directional links.

An ongoing legal battle between Intel, AMD and others over the 80387 made it clear this project was a commercial non-starter.

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