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Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>

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From: Mr. Mister
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:00
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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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Subject: Re: Worlds fastest computer: Was <no subject>
Date: 1997/06/28
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