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Article #13096Re: Hypercubes (place in life)
From: ron
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1987 18:47
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1987 18:47
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In article <1216@ogcvax.UUCP>, pase@ogcvax.UUCP (Douglas M. Pase) writes: > Agreed, the iPSC is not intended to compete with the Cray - at ~1 Mflop per > 32 node tower, it hasn't near the horsepower of a Cray. Crays are especially > good at problems which are vectorizable and require huge amounts of memory. > The iPSC is not. (However, just try to pick up a Cray for under $200,000.) Granted ~1 MFlop per tower is not even rivaling a good mini these days. The nodes in the iPSC are entirely underwelming. This is not a condemnation of hypercubes in general, just the Intel one.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Hypercubes (place in life) Message-ID: <660@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 13:47:44 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.660 Posted: Fri Feb 27 13:47:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 09:49:09 EST References: <5699@amdahl.UUCP> <loral.1379> <1210@ogcvax.UUCP> <ames.362> <1216@ogcvax.UUCP> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 8