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From: Thanatos Prime
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00

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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 04:42:45 GMT, an...@fyi.net (Andy) 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?
>
>-Andy

Yes PPro's can be paralleled..go to www.intel.com...they have a system
set up with 9,200 PPro chips that can do 1.35 terraflops :)

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