🚀 go-pugleaf

Charles Phipps wrote:
> 
> Jaster wrote:
> 
> > In article <339B5C17...@mthcsc.wfu.edu>,
> >    Jimmy Dorff <do...@mthcsc.wfu.edu> wrote:
> > >Simon Juncal wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Jab wrote:
> > >> > ...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...
> > >> >
> > >> > --------
> 
> Actually the last issue of Discover talks about a guy investigating the
> interaction of stars who has created a computer that runs at the
> petaflop level...That'd be 1,000 times faster than the Intel/Sandia
> machine...It's a specialized computer like Deep Blue, but specialization
> looks to be the wave of the future for supercomputers...Besides who
> cares if the damn machine runs Pentium chips...Parallel any set of 9,200
> chips, be it PPC, alpha, or SPARc, and your gonna get teraflops....
> 
> Charly


Uh huh.  Say, judging by your return address, we only live 30 miles
apart.  The reason I point that out is because I have this bridge here
in San Marcos that I desperately need to sell.  It is going cheap, maybe
a petapenny or something.
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Thanks.



Peace.