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In article <339C74...@ast.lmco.com>, Dan Harlan wrote:
>> >: 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.

You can make a massively parallel machine with *any* cpu type (given
enough money).  The cpu's don't need shared memory support, or a common
bus, etc (and even if they did, you just add external hardware to
handle it).

>> >: 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?

"Publically known" is a *silly* criteria!  There's no way to win with
that argument.  If I name a random person, and they've heard of the
Paragon, do you discount that person as not being part of the
"public"?  I certainly know a few non-scientific people that know of the
Paragon, CM5, and so forth.  People don't measure the fastest car in
terms of "publically known", or the smallest mammal, largest fish,
longest bridge, most powerful microscope, etc.

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Darin Johnson
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