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You haven't been paying very good attention, Digital has been far
ahead of Intel on an ongoing basis in CPU development.

And they have filed a multipart Lawsuit against Intel for multiple
patent infringements including, Cache Architecture, and Branch
Prediction.  I think Pipelining techniques were mentioned as well.

The complete text is available in many places.


Wald0 <wald...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>    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
>wald...@hotmail.com
>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