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Pete Wilson <pwi...@dial.pipex.com> wrote in article
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> Andy wrote:
> > 200+ PPros in parallel would not make the fastest computer.  Cray
> > makes supercomputers using 512 500MHz Alphas in parallel.  To make an
> > Intel-based machine as powerful as this, you'd need to parallel 2048
> > PPros (large-scale parallelling is done in powers of 2).  This begs
> > the question: why?  The Alpha solution would be more efficient and
> > less expensive to implement.
> > 
> > I could see a pretty powerful computer being put together with PPros,
> > but though I can't vouch for whether or not it has been done on this
> > scale, I could think of better ways of getting that kind of power.

The Sandia Labs machine is now online. All 9000 or so PPro's...

They used it recently to simulate a cometary impact on the earth at a mid
ocean strike point. They projected: nuclear-winter like conditions, 1
billion dead.

Not bad, considering that a vast number of humans live adjoining the ocean.
Heck, I would have figured 1 billion dead in Asia alone...

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