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    I got a PC Computing(July 1997, of course) the other day in the mail
that talked about the new 500 Mhz. The chip was called Alpha 21164. It's
amazing Intel didn't build it, since they seem to be ahead of the pack.
They profile some machines in here and they are all NT machines and they
claim that the "Scream'n Demon" is they fastest way to run NT in the
planet. I wouldn't know if this'll beat the Omega Red(which I serious
doubt runs NT) computer you guys are talking about, but I'd be happy
with it. I'm guessing this Red Omega has some kind of its own OS or
probably a form of UNIX.

Wald0
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Resistence is Futile. We are the Porch Monkeys.

Rakesh Malik wrote:

> 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