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Chris Leung (Grge...@silcon.com) wrote:
: Rakesh Malik <vl...@hops.cs.jhu.edu> wrote in article
: <5oc1ll$3...@foobar.cs.jhu.edu>...
: > Pete Wilson (pwi...@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
: > : Andy wrote:
: > : > 
: > : > 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.
: > 	That is completely true, 200 PPro's is not a lot of PPro's relative
: > to a high-end SGI/Cray supercomputer.  However, the world's fastest
: computer
: > is a supercomputer at Sandia National Labs (I believe they are still an 
: > afilliate of Lockheed Martin) built around 9,200 PPro 200 CPU's.  It's
: capable
: > of 1.4 teraflops, and has yet to be matched by ANYTHING.  I doubt that 
: > that will remain the case for long, but today that's the winner.  It's
: also
: > the only one of its kind that I know of.
: > 	According to rumour, it can boot Windows 95 in under a minute... ;)
: > 
: > 	-Rakesh
: > 

: Isn't the fastest computer right now the Omega Red.. the Pentagon has it.
: Consisting of 2 terrabytes of storage and LOTs of PPros...?
	No, it's the one at Sandia that I described above.  It has more
PPros than anything else has of anything right now.  

	-Rakesh