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Article #722230Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>
From: Hugh
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 00:00
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> > Tera Computer, here in Seattle, has been working on what they hoped > would be the first teraFLOPS computer for quite a while. (Dunno if > that PPro lashup has reached the teraflop mark --- wasn't that 1.2 TIPS?) > The architecture sounds quite nice, each processor ( = many execution > units) handles several threads simultaneously, so that context switches > and memory traffic are essentially free. Or so their marketing people > claim. Apparently some kinds of finite element simulations require > *very* tightly coupled systems to get all the parallellism you'd expect. > > OTOH, a 16 GHz RISC box sounds nice too ... if possibly a little > dangerous if the case comes loose ... > I bet that would run Corel Word Perfect nice! <G>
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From: "Hugh" <Hu...@aci.net> Subject: Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject> Date: 1997/06/27 Message-ID: <01bc831d$1eb993e0$c34dc586@melton.ncjfcj.unr.edu> X-Deja-AN: 253003640 References: <5n59ta$nsv$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <01bc7d32$5dbc7580$6c6d63ce@grgewash> <5op5ms$49u@usenet.rpi.edu> <33B3560A.B0A352E1@home.now> <wimlECFHAM.LK2@netcom.com> Organization: University & Community College System of Nevada Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.cyberpunk,alt.wired,alt.2600,alt.cracks,alt.bbs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit