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>From Intel's press room
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn121796.htm:

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One Trillion-Operations-Per-Second!

Sandia National Labs/Intel System First to Shatter Computing
High-Performance Mark

SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- December 17, 1996 � The United States Department
of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory and Intel Corporation, the
world's largest computer chip company, have built a parallel
supercomputer that has reached the one trillion- operations-per-second
performance mark using the industry standard Linpack measurement method,
the two organizations announced today. The achievement of 1.06 teraflops
-- or trillions of floating point operations-per-second -- shatters the
previous performance record of 368.2 gigaflops  billion-operations-per-
second) by over 250 percent...

...Utilizing only three-fourths of the final supercomputer -- 7,264 of
the planned 9,200 Pentium� Pro processors -- the Intel/Sandia Teraflops
System is the first computer in the world to break the teraflops
barrier...

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Just a thought: how long will it be until we see a teraflop in our
handheld calculators?  The HP48GX from a few years ago runs many things
faster than the XTs I have in my basement.... hmmmmm   Quantum
computing, anyone?  :)

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    -`^'-       Jeremy Black
    (o o)   ja...@po.cwru.edu 
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