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Scott wrote:
> 
> *maSApo* <mas...@hotmail.com> wrote in article
> <33d0b697...@news.dacom.co.kr>...
> > 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).
> 
> 
> > what the hell is a 9200 Pentium Pro?
> 
> He was talking about 9200 Pentium Pros in a single computer.
> 
> > 200 Mhz? isn't that a bit slow?
> 
> Not when there's 9200 of them working together.
> 
> >
> > They already have 266 Pentium II's which is the follow-up to the old
> > Pentium Pros.
> >
> > I don't know much about megaflops, but a regular Pentium Pro 200 Mhz
> > isn't THAT fast.
> 
> Compared with what? It's a bit faster than my P150.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yup, see above.

I guess that's what happens when replies get chopped a little too much
;-).  Anyway, here is an excerpt from the page describing it:


It has 9,200 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors, 573 gigabytes of system
memory and 2.25 terabytes of disk storage. 

Its peak power consumption is 850 kilowatts (a typical desktop system
consumes 200 watts). 

It takes roughly two miles of cabling to interconnect the system nodes
and cabinets. 

It weights about 44 tons and requires 300 tons of air conditioning
equipment to cool it.


As to why they used Pentium Pro 200 chips, they were the fastest Intel
chips in existence when the project was started.  In December, 1996,
they it became the first computer to surpass 1 teraflop.  At that time
it was only about 3/4ths done.  They apparently didn't get it complete
and installed at the customer site until June (the press release was
dated June 11).

--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@doverpacific.nospam-com)