🚀 go-pugleaf

Andy <an...@fyi.net> wrote in article <33a49482...@news.fyi.net>...
> 
> > 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
> 
Just curious, what do you consider massively parallel? UNISYS has just
released a file server that supports 10 PPros. Just thought I'd mention it.


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Tom LeTourneau
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Whessoe Coggins Systems, Inc.
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