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*maSApo* wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 02:01:38 +0100, gd <ger...@vemaz.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <jo-140797...@homer.kaz.ripco.net>, jo <j...@jomama.edu>
> >writes
> >>9200 Pentium Pro 200MHz processors.  It has a performance of 1.34tflops
> >>> > (1340mflops, or 1.34 trillion floating point operations per second).
> >
> >WOW !!! and quarke on it what is like ? ;-)
> >--
> >French Frog
> >                =-=-music succes this day-=-=
> >take five girl who can't sing but good looking mix with a clever manager with a
> >*lot* of contact . Ho yes ! also you will need a radio station like radio 1 for
> >the brain wash....
> >
> 
> what the hell is a 9200 Pentium Pro?
> 200 Mhz? isn't that a bit slow?
> 
> They already have 266 Pentium II's which is the follow-up to the old
> Pentium Pros.

They have probably been working on this project since before the P2s
were released so they were using the fastest processors they had in
production at the time.  Depending on how far along the project was,
they would not be able to switch out the old PPro design for the newer
P2 design very easily.  I have also heard that there is a limitation
either in current P2s or the chipset that will not allow scaling past 2
processors per machine.  I don't know if that's true, though.

> I don't know much about megaflops, but a regular Pentium Pro 200 Mhz
> isn't THAT fast.
> 
> I would think the world's fastest computer would be a mainframe
> computer that took up an entire building costing millions of dollars
> to make.

Who says this computer doesn't take up a whole building?  The equipment
required to handle 9200 PPros in parallel has to be pretty substantial.
 
> Wouldn't it be great to own a 20,000 dollar SGI workstation?

Yes it would.
 
Randall Bagwell

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