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Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>

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From: Robert Hudson
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
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