🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:22:03 -0700, Levi Cochran
<levi.c...@Ebay.sun.com> wrote:

> I read about this computer in the paper.
> Isn't the first computer to do a trillion calculations a sec.
> I think it had 200+ PPros in parallel.
> 
> All of this could have actually been a dream I had, but I think it's
> pretty close to being correct.

200+ PPros in parallel would not make the fastest computer.  Cray
makes supercomputers using 512 500MHz Alphas in parallel.  To make an
Intel-based machine as powerful as this, you'd need to parallel 2048
PPros (large-scale parallelling is done in powers of 2).  This begs
the question: why?  The Alpha solution would be more efficient and
less expensive to implement.

I could see a pretty powerful computer being put together with PPros,
but though I can't vouch for whether or not it has been done on this
scale, I could think of better ways of getting that kind of power.

-Andy