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Re: <no subject>

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From: twos... JC Vollmer
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 00:00
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Andy (an...@fyi.net) wrote:
: 
: > The most powerful publicly know computer is a massively PARALLEL Pentium
: > Pro machine that is to model nuclear decay.  I'd be surprised if they are
: > faster than 200Mhz each.  ie it doesn't matter IF you have some real
: > work to do with the chip.
: 
: Please, name this system.  I have never heard of PPros being used in
: massive parallel.  In fact, I'm pretty sure you can't do that with
: PPro chips.  You can massively parallel UltraSPARC chips and Alphas.
: 
: Besides, wouldn't you say the most powerful computer that is publicly
: known (i.e., not known only to a segment of the scientific community)
: is Deep Blue?

and that's a PPC machine!

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From: twos...@visi.com (JC Vollmer)
Subject: Re: <no subject>
Date: 1997/06/09
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