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Daron Myrick wrote:
> 
> | > : > 200+ PPros in parallel would not make the fastest computer.
> Cray
> | > : > makes supercomputers using 512 500MHz Alphas in parallel.
> 
> Cray doesn't make computers at all, they were bought out and name
> changed,
> cray no longer exists.

They're still CRAYs, and the last time I checked Cray himself was still
working, albeit under a non-competition clause.

> The worlds fastest computer, despite the logic of not using Alpha
> chips, is
> made
> of over 4000 200Mhz Pentium Pro's running in parallel and does do 1.4
> terraflops.
> The purpose of the computer is to simulate nuclear explosions for the
> USA
> government.

That 1.4 terraflop figure is grossly exagerated; it was achieved when
the little toy wasn't actually DOING anything except pumping through the
CPUs.

You can babble about terraflops all day but the bottom line in the real
world is THROUGHPUT; how fast a system can actually DO something.  And
that toy in California didn't even benchmark well against a TANDEM.
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