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Article #722236Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>
From: Robert Hudson
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 00:00
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Is it just me or did this guy waste my precious bandwidth by posting his message 4 times? Mr. Mister <ja...@wilkens.net> wrote in article <5p27ub$lln$1...@adonis.tdi.net>... > 16-ghz Supercomputing ... the Dept. of Defense contracted Rensselaer > Polytechnic Institute to build this mammoth. gave 'em $1 million! Its > said to be 1,000 times faster than Intel's fastes screamer. The DoD wants > them to build a "PetaOps" Super Computer (1,000 trillion operationsper > second) the basic design calls for an 8-way super scalar architecture with > a 16-ghz clock that could reach 128 billion operations per second. By > lashing 8 of these bad boys together, they expect to reach the speed of the > DARPA-specified machine.(info summary from july 97 pc magazine, page 9) > > chip shop owner wrote in article <01bc826f$cda73780$86de989e@default>...>tha > t was sarcasm>>quekky <que...@hotmail.com> wrote in article><5ou5dv$lgs1@ine > tgate.tp.ac.sg>...>>> >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... ;)>>>> WOW! that makes the 1400 MHz computer as fast as a 120 MHz > computer,>> i can boot win95 in less than a min (just installed one)!>>> > > > >
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From: "Robert Hudson" <rc...@braenet.com.au> Subject: Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject> Date: 1997/06/29 Message-ID: <01bc8455$e700b0c0$12f438cb@default> X-Deja-AN: 253437743 References: <5n59ta$nsv$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33a49482.93504312@news.fyi.net> <01bc72a1$c665e940$163c92ce@stalker> <3398554A.5FA1@Ebay.sun.com> <33ad6a9b.148321757@news.fyi.net> <33A10989.EAA42C01@dial.pipex.com> <5oc1ll$3dg@foobar.cs.jhu.edu> <5ou5dv$lgs1@inetgate.tp.ac.sg> <01bc826f$cda73780$86de989e@default> <5p27ub$lln$1@adonis.tdi.net> 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,alt.binaries.mac.games,alt.binaries.misc,alt.bi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit