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Article #2581ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
From: brooks
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 20:58
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 20:58
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mash@mips.com pointed out some important considerations in the issue of whether supercomputers as we know them will survive. I thought that I would attempt to get a discussion started. Here is a simple fact for the mill, related to the question of whether or not machines delivering the fastest performance at any price have room in the market. Fact number 1: The best of the microprocessors now EXCEED supercomputers for scalar performance and the performance of microprocessors is not yet stagnant. On scalar codes, commodity microprocessors ARE the fastest machines at any price and custom cpu architectures are doomed in this market. brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!lll-winken!maddog.llnl.gov!brooks From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 14 Oct 89 20:58:54 GMT Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov () Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 13